Ragtime Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Part 1, Chapters 1 and 2

1. Where does the story of RAGTIME begin?

2. What does Father manufacture?

3. Who is on the mind of Mother's Younger Brother?

4. To where does Younger Brother ride the streetcar?

5. What is Little Boy wishing for?

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

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

8. From where does the North Pole expedition set off?

9. What does Father notice as the expedition sails out of the harbor?

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

11. What does the arrival of the immigrants symbolize?