NYC MASTER ELECTRICIAN EXAM TEST
BANK SOLVED QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
RESPONSES GRADED A+
⩥ What event inspired the National Historic Preservation Movement?
Answer: The destruction of the original Penn Station. When Grand
Central Terminal was also slated for destruction, Jackie Kennedy
Onassis spearheaded a resistance effort.
⩥ What was the purpose of the 1965 Hart-Cellars Act?
Answer: Abolished the quota system based on national origin from the
American immigration policy, in favor of one based on skills. This
allowed many more Asians to immigrate to the US.
⩥ When was slavery abolished in New York?
Answer: 1827
⩥ Where is the Star Walk?
Answer: Pearl Theater
⩥ Who founded the AME Zion Church?
Answer: Peter Williams
,⩥ What was the original name of the Cotton Club?
Answer: Club Deluxe
⩥ Where is the Diamond District? Where did it used to be?
Answer: 47th Street between 5th and 6th Avenue; previously in
Chinatown
⩥ What is the name of the poem written by Emma Lazarus that is
displayed on the Statue of Liberty?
Answer: The New Colossus
⩥ Who was the first conductor to perform at Carnegie Hall?
Answer: Tchaikovsky
⩥ What was the name of the old elevated railway on Ninth Avenue?
Answer: The Ninth Avenue El
⩥ What is Grand Boulevard in the Bronx also known as?
Answer: The Grand Concourse
⩥ Where is the monument that honors 11,500 Americans who died on
prison ships during the Revolutionary War?
Answer: Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn
, ⩥ What famous author hated brownstones?
Answer: Edith Wharton
⩥ Who designed the copper dome of the Woolworth Building?
Answer: Cass Gilbert
⩥ Who was Jimmy Walker?
Answer: Mayor of New York City during the Jazz Age, after defeating
Fiorello LaGuardia. He famously ticketed the cars of police officers
conducting a raid on the 21 Club during Prohibition. He was involved
with Tammany Hall. Eventually, he resigned in 1932 at the request of
President Roosevelt.
⩥ Who are the architects of the Manhattan Municipal Building?
Answer: McKim, Mead, and White
⩥ Which famous New York City resident invented the telephone?
Answer: Antonio Meucci
⩥ Which president regularly sat in a pew at St. Paul's Chapel?
Answer: George Washington
BANK SOLVED QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
RESPONSES GRADED A+
⩥ What event inspired the National Historic Preservation Movement?
Answer: The destruction of the original Penn Station. When Grand
Central Terminal was also slated for destruction, Jackie Kennedy
Onassis spearheaded a resistance effort.
⩥ What was the purpose of the 1965 Hart-Cellars Act?
Answer: Abolished the quota system based on national origin from the
American immigration policy, in favor of one based on skills. This
allowed many more Asians to immigrate to the US.
⩥ When was slavery abolished in New York?
Answer: 1827
⩥ Where is the Star Walk?
Answer: Pearl Theater
⩥ Who founded the AME Zion Church?
Answer: Peter Williams
,⩥ What was the original name of the Cotton Club?
Answer: Club Deluxe
⩥ Where is the Diamond District? Where did it used to be?
Answer: 47th Street between 5th and 6th Avenue; previously in
Chinatown
⩥ What is the name of the poem written by Emma Lazarus that is
displayed on the Statue of Liberty?
Answer: The New Colossus
⩥ Who was the first conductor to perform at Carnegie Hall?
Answer: Tchaikovsky
⩥ What was the name of the old elevated railway on Ninth Avenue?
Answer: The Ninth Avenue El
⩥ What is Grand Boulevard in the Bronx also known as?
Answer: The Grand Concourse
⩥ Where is the monument that honors 11,500 Americans who died on
prison ships during the Revolutionary War?
Answer: Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn
, ⩥ What famous author hated brownstones?
Answer: Edith Wharton
⩥ Who designed the copper dome of the Woolworth Building?
Answer: Cass Gilbert
⩥ Who was Jimmy Walker?
Answer: Mayor of New York City during the Jazz Age, after defeating
Fiorello LaGuardia. He famously ticketed the cars of police officers
conducting a raid on the 21 Club during Prohibition. He was involved
with Tammany Hall. Eventually, he resigned in 1932 at the request of
President Roosevelt.
⩥ Who are the architects of the Manhattan Municipal Building?
Answer: McKim, Mead, and White
⩥ Which famous New York City resident invented the telephone?
Answer: Antonio Meucci
⩥ Which president regularly sat in a pew at St. Paul's Chapel?
Answer: George Washington
