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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose plays does CBS want to produce?
(a) Arthur Miller
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Goethe
(d) Tennesee Williams

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

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

4. Who are no longer allowed to talk business with Moses'?
(a) Politicians
(b) Underworld gangsters
(c) His former aides
(d) Newspaper reporters

5. What does Moses want to build in the East Temont area?
(a) The world's biggest parking lot
(b) Highway 78
(c) A shopping mall
(d) Cross-Bronx Expressway

6. Who stands in front of the bulldozers?
(a) La Guardia
(b) Newspaper reporters
(c) Moses
(d) Mothers and children

7. What does the letter to the Times call Robert Moses?
(a) A power mongerer
(b) Unique
(c) A Mafia boss
(d) A genuis

8. What does Moses sell in this chapter?
(a) Bonds
(b) Cars
(c) Books
(d) Houses

9. Which of the following people has an estate in the Carribean?
(a) Johnny Rotten
(b) Theo Roosevelt
(c) Jack Hobbs
(d) Bernard Gimbel

10. Where did Moses put most of the people he forced out of their homes?
(a) The streets
(b) Tenements
(c) Chicago
(d) New Jersey

11. Which of the following actors performs in the plays?
(a) James Dean
(b) Marlon Brando
(c) George C. Scott
(d) Harvey Keitel

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

13. What does Moses attempt to write in this section?
(a) A poem
(b) A novel
(c) His autobiography
(d) A short story

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why can a mass transit system not be built?

3. Why does Moses have to build the Throgs Neck Bridge?

4. What is the name of the expressway that goes from New York City to the airport?

5. What does Moses realize that the Rockefeller administration is waiting for?

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