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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Mary work while in New York?
(a) The Tunnel Authority
(b) The Bureau of Municipal Research
(c) Modern Art musuem
(d) The Transport Comission

2. What is Moses able to do for the first time in his life?
(a) Support himself
(b) Run
(c) Play golf
(d) Go on holiday

3. What position does Moses accept in this section?
(a) Chairman of the the Scout's association
(b) Governor of Albany
(c) President of USA
(d) President of the Long Island State Park Commission

4. What hits New York City hard in 1930?
(a) An aeroplane
(b) Housing shortages
(c) A typhoon
(d) The Depression

5. What does Moses admire about Britain?
(a) The parks
(b) The road system
(c) The transport system
(d) The class system

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following people oppose Moses' plans:

2. Which of the following beaches opens during Roosevelt's administration?

3. On what condition will August Heckscher donate money for a park?

4. What neighborhood does Moses partly tear down to make way for the Gowanus Parkway?

5. Who does Moses become friends with in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Moses get revenge on La Guardia and Roosevelt following his defeat over the tunnel project in Brooklyn?

2. Why is Moses' campaign to run for governor unsuccessful?

3. How is the older Moses contradicting his younger self in Part 4, Chapter 24?

4. How has Moses' life changed in Part 4, Chapter 15?

5. What does the Bureau of Municipal Research do?

6. How has Moses' ideas about power changed in Part 5, Chapter 25?

7. How does Part 4, Chapter 21 show how Moses holds grudges?

8. How did New York and its people benefit from the Roaring Twenties?

9. How does Moses differ from his brother, Paul?

10. What is Progressivism?

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