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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 14 and 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After a second trial, what sentence does Harry K. Shaw receive?
(a) The electric chair.
(b) Life in prison.
(c) Seven years in prison.
(d) Remanded to the Manhattan Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

2. At the trial, how does Evelyn depict herself at age fifteen?
(a) Sitting in a velvet swing as a wealthy industrialist ogled her calves.
(b) As a waitress who wanted to be an actress.
(c) As a spoiled rich girl who destroyed men.
(d) As a simple minded girl who would do anyrthing for any man.

3. What was the physical condition of the rich prior to William Howard Taft becoming President?
(a) Wafer thin.
(b) Sickly and pale.
(c) Healthy and muscular.
(d) Generally obese.

4. What famous person is in the auto accident in front of Father's house?
(a) J. P. Morgan.
(b) Harry Houdini.
(c) Evelyn Nesbit.
(d) Will Bill Cody.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Is Perry able to locate the exact spot of the North Pole?

2. What causes the Little Girl to stop working?

3. What has Mother accomplished during Father's absence?

4. What does The Boy think happens to people, animals, or objects in a motion picture?

5. What was a main reason for men losing their jobs about the turn of the century?

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