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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Houdini meet at a private function thrown by Mr. Stuyvesant Fish?
(a) Tavinia Warren Thumb.
(b) Theodore Dreiser.
(c) Al Jolson.
(d) P. T. Barnum.

2. Is Perry able to locate the exact spot of the North Pole?
(a) No, because the compass does not function there.
(b) Yes, because of the red and white pole standing there.
(c) Yes, because the house of Santa Claus is there.
(d) No, but there is no doubt he was there.

3. What does the arrival of the immigrants symbolize?
(a) That a famine is headed for America.
(b) That there are changes coming for the country.
(c) That the world economy is failing.
(d) That the weather will turn bad.

4. What does Evelyn hope for in her husband's trial?
(a) That she won't have to testify.
(b) That he will be found guilty and locked up for life.
(c) That he will commit suicide.
(d) That her testimony will free him.

5. What is the newspaperman, Jacob Riis, writing about at this time?
(a) The trial of the century.
(b) Stopping the flow of emigrants into the country.
(c) Better housing for the poor.
(d) The music in Harlem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mother find buried in her garden?

2. What does Father think about when he sees the new immigrants?

3. What does Father manufacture?

4. which immigrants are sent back home?

5. What happened often when Freud was around Jung?

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