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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main profession of most Rothschild men?
(a) Education
(b) Finance
(c) Law
(d) Politics

2. What was the impetus for the railroad?
(a) Ship California produce to the East coast
(b) A passenger train for vacationers
(c) Ship military implements for the Civil War
(d) Connect East coast gold seekers with California

3. What allows man to think he is master of the universe?
(a) Determination
(b) Education
(c) Innovation
(d) Hubris

4. In what year are treasures related to the Brooklyn Bridge found?
(a) 1919
(b) 1955
(c) 1969
(d) 1949

5. Before the railroad, what is the only method of crossing the Isthmus of Panama?
(a) Steamship
(b) Canoe
(c) Speed boat
(d) Raft

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the first stake for the railroad driven?

2. What does Stowe do after her friend, Eliza Stowe, dies?

3. _______________ called Harriet "the little woman who made this big war."

4. Who was the New York governor who attended the bridge opening?

5. "The Lonely War of a Good Angry Man" addresses what subject?

(see the answer key)

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