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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. In the late 1800s, what seemed to happen in one hundreds?
(a) Songs written; immigrant boats arrived; fires broke out.
(b) Negores lynched; miners burned alive; children mutilated.
(c) Elections held; charity balls held; new newspapers started.
(d) Roads built; farms shut down; factories opened.

2. Who does Mother call after she and the maid clean up the baby?
(a) Her next door neighbor.
(b) A doctor and the police.
(c) Grandfather.
(d) The Welfare Department.

3. At the jail called The Tombs, what do the guards invent?
(a) New handcuffs that cannot be opened without a key.
(b) An escape-proof solitary confinement cell.
(c) A jail cell that cannot be opened without a key and a combination.
(d) A new type of leg irons they claim to be inescapable.

4. What has Mother accomplished during Father's absence?
(a) She has become a social worker.
(b) She has cut her hair and started wearing the latest fashions.
(c) She has opened a music school in the parlor.
(d) She has taken on executive responsibility for the business.

5. Where does The Boy get some of Tateh's silhouettes?
(a) At a flea market in New York.
(b) From a penny store in New Rochelle.
(c) Evelyn Nesbit gives them to him.
(d) Where Younger Brother had thrown them in the trash.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Evelyn go when she doesn't find Tateh and the girl one day?

2. What famous person is in the auto accident in front of Father's house?

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

4. With whom is Father planning to travel to the North Pole?

5. What does Evelyn see that causes her to order the driver to stop the car?

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