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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who leaves a message that he wants to meet with Coalhouse?
(a) Fire Chief Conklin.
(b) The new police chief.
(c) Tateh.
(d) Younger Brother.

2. What do Mother, The Boy, and Younger Brother do in the winter time?
(a) Stay inside by the fireplace.
(b) Clean sidewalks for sick people.
(c) Skate on the New Rochelle pond.
(d) Take long sleigh rides.

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

4. Why are Tateh and the girl at home that day?
(a) They are hiding from Evelyn.
(b) The girl is sick.
(c) Evelyn's husband has put out a contract on Tateh.
(d) Tateh is out of supplies and has no money to buy more.

5. Who was in the opposite cell of The Tombs as the great escape artist worked his feat?
(a) Theodore Dreiser.
(b) Harry K. Shaw.
(c) Al Jolson.
(d) Carl Jung.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the girl tied by a rope to the old man's wrists?

2. Why does he insist on living a grand style in Europe?

3. What is Father's great guilt?

4. What does Father observe about the game of baseball as opposed to the way they played at Harvard twenty years before?

5. What resemblance does Morgan see in Henry Ford?

(see the answer key)

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