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

2. What does Remington come to dislike about the West?
(a) The Gold Rush
(b) Civilization
(c) No culture
(d) Indian reservations

3. With whom does Mores think Roosevelt sides?
(a) Chicago beef trust
(b) Democrats
(c) Republicans
(d) Railroad men

4. What act guarantees exclusive U.S. rights to build the railroad?
(a) U.N. Treaty
(b) Bidlack Treaty
(c) Treaty of Greenville
(d) Treaty of Versailles

5. Who is Elizabeth Cabot Cary?
(a) Agassiz' sister
(b) Agassiz' prize student
(c) Agassiz' wife
(d) Agassiz' secretary

Short Answer Questions

1. Which U.S. president attended the bridge opening?

2. Humboldt is the first European to ___________________________________.

3. What does Remington falsely claim to be?

4. Agassiz becomes American's premiere _______________.

5. Who takes over the work of running the project after her husband is paralyzed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the nature of Harriet Beecher's childhood?

2. What precipitates the finding of the carpentry shop treasure?

3. What is Valentine's struggle with getting the bridge documents validated?

4. Explain how the drawings are crafted.

5. What is notable about Humboldt and Bonpland's work relating vegetation to elevations?

6. Why is the Panama Railroad called "the first steam road to El Dorado?"

7. What are the unusual circumstances of Hattie's marriage?

8. How is Agassiz' American lecture tour described?

9. What is the injury that changes Washington Roebling's life and his work on the bridge?

10. Explain Harriet's familiarity with slavery which allows her to write Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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