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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who names a plaza after Moses?
(a) The Salvation Army
(b) Fordham University
(c) Harvard University
(d) The Boy Scouts

2. What is the only European nation to participate in the World's Fair?
(a) Britain
(b) Spain
(c) Italy
(d) Portugal

3. Who plans an alternative route for the expressway?
(a) Mayor Wagner
(b) The Tremont community
(c) La Guardia
(d) Moses

4. What does Tavern on the Green need to destroy to build their parking lot?
(a) A swamp
(b) A playground
(c) A monument
(d) A mansion

5. What does Rockefeller want access to to build his projects?
(a) Moses' files
(b) Moses' plans
(c) Triborough surplus
(d) Chase Manhatten Bank

6. What are the names of the two reformers in this chapter?
(a) Henry Miller and Lou Reed
(b) Johnny Gold and Henry Cohen
(c) Jack Wild and Frederick Pohl
(d) Heny Cohen and Hortense Gabel

7. What is Gene Gleason's role at the newspaper?
(a) Sub-editor
(b) Reporter
(c) Editor
(d) Owner

8. Why is Moses not worried about Cohen and Gabel's investigation?
(a) He has the President's backing
(b) He has more money than them
(c) No one trust him
(d) It will take months

9. Where does Moses like to spend his vacations?
(a) Britain
(b) Russia
(c) The Carribean
(d) Brazil

10. What kind of business is Tavern on the Green?
(a) Cafe
(b) Restaurant
(c) Bowling alley
(d) Clothes store

11. What is the name of the chief engineer Moses attacks?
(a) Bingsby
(b) Jacobs
(c) Singstad
(d) Rotten

12. In what city are they building a mass transit line down the middle of highways?
(a) New Orleans
(b) Los Angeles
(c) Chicago
(d) New York

13. What does the Salvation Army name Moses at the end of the year?
(a) Beard of the Year
(b) Washed up celebrity of the year
(c) Man of the Year
(d) The next famous person to die

14. What opens in 1961?
(a) Niagara dam
(b) Brooklyn Bridge
(c) Lincoln Tower
(d) Washington Monument

15. What does Moses have to spend $750 million on?
(a) Brooklyn Bridge
(b) Central Park
(c) Fellham's Park
(d) Anything he wants

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose term expires in 1970?

2. Who is the trustee for the bondholders?

3. Which of the following structures did Moses not build?

4. What does the letter to the Times call Robert Moses?

5. What does Moses tell the press was behind his resignation?

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