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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the Little Girl to stop working?
(a) She is forced to go to school.
(b) She is kidnapped by pimps.
(c) She falls and breaks her hand.
(d) She gets tuberculosis.

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

3. What began to be heard in the ghettos?
(a) The rattle of streetcars.
(b) The sounds of piano lessons.
(c) The people speaking English.
(d) The calls of ice venders.

4. What was a main reason for men losing their jobs about the turn of the century?
(a) Catching tuberculosis.
(b) Attempting to form unions.
(c) New immagrants working for less money.
(d) Companies going bankrupt.

5. which immigrants are sent back home?
(a) Thos who cannot read.
(b) Those who are criminals.
(c) Those too old or ill.
(d) Those from Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who took up the dare to escape from The Tombs?

2. What type of labor was favored in the factories then?

3. What do Mameh, Tateh, and the Little Girl do to make a living?

4. What do most of the 1mmigrants find as they settle in New York?

5. What does Riis call his colored map of Manhattan?

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