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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 11 and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Houdini do in Germany?
(a) Learn to play the violin.
(b) Hang from a flying plane by his teeth.
(c) Walk on the wings of a flying plane.
(d) Learn to pilot a Voisin.

2. What type of labor was favored in the factories then?
(a) Child labor.
(b) Female labor.
(c) Black labor.
(d) Irish labor.

3. What was Freud's judgment about America?
(a) He said it was a poor copy of Europe.
(b) He said it had left eruope behind.
(c) He said it was ahead of its time.
(d) He said it was a gigantic mistake.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What causes the Little Girl to stop working?

3. When Freud visited New York and saw the early motion pictures, what was his thought?

4. After a second trial, what sentence does Harry K. Shaw receive?

5. Who did Houdini meet at a private function thrown by Mr. Stuyvesant Fish?

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