The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Test | Final Test - Medium

Robert Caro
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 111 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Test | Final Test - Medium

Robert Caro
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 111 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Who writes up Cleason's reports?
(a) Fred Cook
(b) Wagner
(c) James Dean
(d) Roger Toogle

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

3. What does Moses tell the press was behind his resignation?
(a) Politics
(b) A want for freedom
(c) Money
(d) Old age

4. What does La Guardia die of?
(a) Old age
(b) Heart attack
(c) Stroke
(d) Cancer

5. Who is the governor of New York in this section?
(a) Ronald Reagan
(b) Gerald Ford
(c) Nelson Rockefeller
(d) John Ford

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moses become President of in this section?

2. What is the name of Moses' executive officer?

3. What is Norton Mockridge's role at the newspaper?

4. Which of the following is not one of Pokrass' secret partners?

5. What is the name of the chief engineer Moses attacks?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Moses respond to complaints from the New York public that there is too much traffic?

2. What leads to the decay of the mass transit system?

3. Why wouldn't firing Moses diminish his power?

4. How does Moses deal with people who will not move out of their apartments?

5. How does society start to reward Moses towards the end of his life?

6. How does Moses respond to his wife's illness and eventual death?

7. What does Lindsay decide in January, 1966?

8. Who are Henry Cohen and Hortense Gabel?

9. How does Moses persuade people to make way for his constructions?

10. What extra authority do the succeeding governors give Moses in Part 6, Chapter 33?

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