View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the result when the newspapers succeed in getting the Model-T raised from the pond?
(a) No one was interested in coming to see it.
(b) The new police chief announced it was the work of communists.
(c) The photos in the papers made Coalhouse even angrier.
(d) The authorities were embarrassed because it showed the cruelty imposed on Coalhouse.

2. Who cares for the baby while Sarah lay dying in the hospital?
(a) Coalhouse comes and looks after the baby.
(b) The Boy takes charge of the baby.
(c) Mother holds the baby constantly.
(d) Younger Brother moves into Sarah's room and cares for the baby.

3. What resemblance does Morgan see in Henry Ford?
(a) A resemblance to Napoleon Bonapart.
(b) A resemblance of Sethi I, Pharoah of Egypt.
(c) A resemblance to a golden eagle.
(d) A resemblance to Thomas Jefferson.

4. Why does Evelyn call the old man Tateh?
(a) Because he cannot pronounce his Hebrew name.
(b) Because he would not tell her his real name.
(c) Because she met him on Tateh Street.
(d) Because his clothes looked tattered.

5. How does the knowledge of Coalhouse Walker's activities eventually become known?
(a) A black lawyer gets information from one of Coalhouse's gang.
(b) One of the gang members drops out and goes to the police.
(c) Younger Brother keeps a diary of every day with Coalhouse.
(d) Coalhouse writes everything down to be opened after his death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Hebrew letters on storefronts look like to Evelyn?

2. Who was in the opposite cell of The Tombs as the great escape artist worked his feat?

3. What happens when the American Woolen Company gives out envelopes with short pay?

4. At the jail called The Tombs, what do the guards invent?

5. Why does The Girl like the strike?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 377 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample