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

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

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Gene Gleason's role at the newspaper?
(a) Editor
(b) Reporter
(c) Owner
(d) Sub-editor

2. What is the Slum Clearance Program replacing non slum properties with?
(a) Cafes
(b) Cinemas
(c) Nothing
(d) Tenements

3. What opens in 1961?
(a) Washington Monument
(b) Lincoln Tower
(c) Brooklyn Bridge
(d) Niagara dam

4. What do Cohen and Gabel investigate?
(a) Corruption
(b) Moses' dealings with the underworld
(c) The housing situation
(d) Fraud

5. Which of the following names are suggested as a name for the dam?
(a) Robert Moses Power Dam
(b) Dam Roosevelt
(c) The Dam of New York City
(d) O'Dwyer Dam

6. Which of the following actors performs in the plays?
(a) Harvey Keitel
(b) George C. Scott
(c) James Dean
(d) Marlon Brando

7. What does the letter to the Times call Robert Moses?
(a) A power mongerer
(b) Unique
(c) A Mafia boss
(d) A genuis

8. Which of the following people has an estate in the Carribean?
(a) Jack Hobbs
(b) Johnny Rotten
(c) Theo Roosevelt
(d) Bernard Gimbel

9. Who passes away in 1945?
(a) Franklin Roosevelt
(b) La Guardia
(c) Newbold Morris
(d) Theodore Roosevelt

10. Who is the trustee for the bondholders?
(a) KSB Bank
(b) Chase Manhattan Bank
(c) Barclays Bank
(d) Volks Bank

11. What is the name of the investigator who investigates a scandal at the fair?
(a) Abe Beame
(b) Roger Hale
(c) Jack Gordon
(d) Fred Flump

12. Who does Lindsay want to merge Triborough with?
(a) Tunnel Authority
(b) The Republican party
(c) Subway Authority
(d) The Transit Authority

13. What kind of area do people consider East Tremont to be?
(a) Working class
(b) Middle class
(c) Upper class
(d) Lower class

14. Who is the Chase Manhattan Bank controlled by?
(a) President Nixon
(b) Moses
(c) The Trump family
(d) The Rockefeller family

15. What does Moses become President of in this section?
(a) Oxford University
(b) The rain forest
(c) Harrods
(d) The World's Fair

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are no longer allowed to talk business with Moses'?

2. When does Moses bulldoze the playground?

3. What does Exton claim Moses is motivated by?

4. What will happen if Rockefeller breaks the bond covenants?

5. What gives Moses a chance to destroy the Tunnel Authority?

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