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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Agassiz first come to the United States?
(a) To meet the president
(b) To go on a Lecture Tour
(c) To teach at Yale
(d) To find a wife

2. Who does Mores crusade against when he returns to France?
(a) Muslims
(b) Catholics
(c) Italians
(d) Jews

3. Of what does John Roebling die?
(a) Tetanus
(b) Old age
(c) Heart disease
(d) Cancer

4. Humboldt is one of the earliest _________________.
(a) astrologers
(b) mathemeticians
(c) astronomers
(d) ecologists

5. In what countries do Humboldt and Bonpland spend two years?
(a) Columbia, Ecuador and Peru
(b) Ireland, Scotland and Wales
(c) Thailand, China, India
(d) Italy, Germany and France

6. Where was the first stake for the railroad driven?
(a) Victoria Island
(b) Ellis Island
(c) Balboa Island
(d) Manzanillo Island

7. What is the major disease that kills many of the workers on the railroad?
(a) Tuberculosis
(b) AIDS
(c) Diabetes
(d) Malaria

8. What life does Harriet come to like?
(a) Domestic life
(b) Religious life
(c) Education
(d) The lecture circuit

9. From what school is the young artist forced to drop out upon the death of his father?
(a) Yale University
(b) Princeton University
(c) Harvard University
(d) Columbia University

10. What is Harriet Beecher Stowe famous for writing?
(a) Uncle Tom's Cabin
(b) War and Peace
(c) Tom and Jerry
(d) David Copperfield

11. _______________ called Harriet "the little woman who made this big war."
(a) Frederick Douglass
(b) Calvin Stowe
(c) Andrew Johnson
(d) Abraham Lincoln

12. What does Theodore Roosevelt find even more interesting about Remington than his paintings?
(a) His background
(b) His horse skills
(c) His writing
(d) His drinking ability

13. Two of Roebling's successful projects were in ______________ and Niagara Falls.
(a) Cincinnati
(b) San Francisco
(c) Paris
(d) Portsmouth

14. The first essay is entitled "Journey to the top of the __________."
(a) Mountain
(b) World
(c) Heap
(d) Class

15. Which U.S. president attended the bridge opening?
(a) U.S. Grant
(b) Warren Harding
(c) Chester A. Arthur
(d) Grover Cleveland

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Remington, "Cowboys are ______________."

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

4. Who takes over the project when John Roebling dies?

5. According to Remington the West is filled with horses, blood and _________________.

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