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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Agassiz becomes American's premiere _______________.
(a) naturalist
(b) filmmaker
(c) sculptor
(d) painter
2. What is showing signs of wear on the bridge?
(a) Caissons
(b) Trunnions
(c) Joints
(d) Cement
3. Agassiz helps people understand how ______________ created natural phenomena in Europe.
(a) Global Warming
(b) God
(c) The Ice Age
(d) The Big Bang
4. "The Builders" is the story of the building of _________________.
(a) The Eiffel Tower
(b) Mount Rushmore
(c) The Golden Gate Bridge
(d) The Brooklyn Bridge
5. Where does Theodore Roosevelt spend his time in this chapter?
(a) Appalachian Mountains
(b) Florida swamps
(c) Mojave Desert
(d) Dakota Badlands
6. What makes it hard to retain workers for the railroad?
(a) The heat
(b) Treacherous terrain
(c) Low pay
(d) The Gold Rush
7. What is the name of Humboldt's book that inspired Charles Darwin and others?
(a) Jungle Stories
(b) My Life with Plants
(c) Personal Narrative
(d) Hot, Humid Horticulture
8. Who takes over the project when John Roebling dies?
(a) Washington Roebling
(b) Richard Remington
(c) U.S. Grant
(d) Warner Roebling
9. What does the person in #80 carry across the bridge as a symbol of victory?
(a) Peace flower
(b) Rooster
(c) Laurel wreath
(d) Trophy
10. Who is Alexander von Humboldt?
(a) Italian artist
(b) German-born naturalist
(c) Inventor of the Humvee
(d) Swiss inventor
11. Who is the president of the project who dies of malaria on the job?
(a) William Henry Aspinwald
(b) Henry Chauncey
(c) Frederic Remington
(d) John Lloyd Stephens
12. Who is Elizabeth Cabot Cary?
(a) Agassiz' sister
(b) Agassiz' secretary
(c) Agassiz' prize student
(d) Agassiz' wife
13. Of what does John Roebling die?
(a) Tetanus
(b) Cancer
(c) Heart disease
(d) Old age
14. What is the major disease that kills many of the workers on the railroad?
(a) AIDS
(b) Diabetes
(c) Malaria
(d) Tuberculosis
15. Who was the New York governor who attended the bridge opening?
(a) Ed Koch
(b) Fiorello La Guardia
(c) Grover Cleveland
(d) John Lindsay
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Remington the West is filled with horses, blood and _________________.
2. How is the answer to #77 paralyzed?
3. What did Harriet's famous book prompt?
4. Who is Valentine's neighbor who works for the Whitney Museum of Modern Art?
5. What donations is Agassiz able to attain for the school?
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