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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Moses want to build a huge park?

2. What does Moses have to spend $750 million on?

3. Where did Moses put most of the people he forced out of their homes?

4. What do the public think the City authorities have done nothing to relieve?

5. What kind of company is Goldwater and Flynn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What popular decision does Moses make in Part 7, Chapter 44?

2. What leads to the decay of the mass transit system?

3. What does the attorney look into when assessing Moses' situation?

4. Why does the mayor not fire Moses?

5. What problems does Moses have with the international organization that sanctions the World Fair?

6. What does World War II give Moses the opportunity to do?

7. What extra authority do the succeeding governors give Moses in Part 6, Chapter 33?

8. How does Rockefeller get what he wants in Part 7, Chapter 49?

9. In what way has Moses met his match with Rockefeller?

10. What problems does Moses have at the World Fair in Part 7, Chapter 47?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look at the structure of the book.

1) Discuss elements of the narrative structure: exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's ideas?

2) Aside from Robert Moses, examine the way Caro uses the other people in the story to express his point of view.

Essay Topic 2

Examine Caro's point of view.

1) How does Caro present Moses in his book?

2) In what can Moses claim that Caro's point of view was unfair and some of the information he presented was unsubstantiated?

Essay Topic 3

Examine Progressivism.

1) What is Progressivism?

2) Who were the advocates of Progressivism and how has Progressivism affected political thinking?

3) What are the strengths and weaknesses of Progressivism?

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