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The Gilded Age

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who wrote The New Collosus for the base of the Statue of Liberty?

a)

Emma Lazarus

b)

Susan Greenfield

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2.

Who wrote How the Other Half Lives?

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Jacob Riss

c)

Nathan Reuss

d)

Nathan Casey

e)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

3.

What day did the Land Rush happen?

a)

April 22nd, 1889

b)

March 13th, 1876

c)

August 14th, 1881

d)

March 15th, 1885

e)

March 14th, 1881

4.

What year was the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor formed?

(a)  

5.

What is The New Collosus?

a)

A poem

b)

A song

c)

A book

d)

A robot

e)

A sculpture

6.

How does the other half live?

a)

In poverty

b)

In wealth

c)

With crime and violence

d)

With civility

e)

In pollution

7.

What was "the other half" the other half of?

a)

New York

b)

Chicago

c)

Polk County

d)

Ohio

e)

Washington D.C.

8.

What was the Oklahoma Land Rush

a)

People claiming unassigned Cherokee land

b)

People claiming unassigned Cheyenne land

c)

A landslide on Oklahoma mountain which killed 419 people

d)

Indians invading and taking over thousands of acres of land from the Oklahoma citizens

e)

The first notable 5k in history

9.

What was the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor?

a)

A noble and holy labor union

b)

A trashy boy band from the 70s... the 1870s 😏

c)

A cult which forced members to do manual labor in hopes that Confucius would bless them

d)

A subreddit devoted to memes about about labor... specifically child labor which is kinda messed up if you think about it...

e)

A LARP club that literally thought that they were knights who had to protect their king... Harrison Ford....

10.

Which of the following is an excerpt from The New Colossus?

a)

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

b)

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she

c)

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

d)

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

e)

The copper lady guards our eastern shore