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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Tateh and The Girl go to warm up after spending the night in the train station?
(a) A small cafe.
(b) A synagogue.
(c) A Philadelphia Department Store.
(d) A movie theater.

2. What is the newspaperman, Jacob Riis, writing about at this time?
(a) The trial of the century.
(b) The music in Harlem.
(c) Stopping the flow of emigrants into the country.
(d) Better housing for the poor.

3. What do Mameh, Tateh, and the Little Girl do to make a living?
(a) Take in boarders.
(b) Sing and dance on the streets.
(c) Sell on the streets and sew patches by hand.
(d) Make deliveries on bicycles.

4. Is Perry able to locate the exact spot of the North Pole?
(a) No, because the compass does not function there.
(b) Yes, because the house of Santa Claus is there.
(c) No, but there is no doubt he was there.
(d) Yes, because of the red and white pole standing there.

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

6. What plea does Shaw's mother want him to make in court but he flatly refuses?
(a) Self defense.
(b) No lo contendre.
(c) Insanity.
(d) Amnesia.

7. How does Tateh entertain The Girl at home?
(a) He tells her stories of the old country.
(b) He makes silhouette thumb books for her to look at.
(c) He teaches her old Yiddish songs.
(d) He teaches her how to dance.

8. What does Father see in his bathroom mirror after he returns?
(a) How much young her looked.
(b) How fat he had become eating Esquimo food.
(c) How much stronger he looked.
(d) The gaunt, bearded face of a homeless man.

9. Where does the story of RAGTIME begin?
(a) Albany, New York.
(b) New Rochelle, New York.
(c) Manhattan, New York.
(d) Brooklyn, New York.

10. The winter The Boy was skating on the pond, where were Tateh and The Girl?
(a) Newark, New Jersey.
(b) Bangor, Maine.
(c) New Haven, Connecticutt.
(d) Lawrence, Massachusetts.

11. What do the Hebrew letters on storefronts look like to Evelyn?
(a) Graffiti.
(b) Scratches.
(c) Bones.
(d) Tally marks.

12. What does Tateh have that finally makes them money?
(a) His new coat and tie.
(b) The flip book he made for The Girl which he sells for $25.
(c) The Girl's new cloak and hat.
(d) His art supplies.

13. Who will be speaking at the meeting Evelyn goes to with Tateh and the girl?
(a) Emma Goldman.
(b) Harry Houdini.
(c) Teddy Roosevelt.
(d) Clara Barton.

14. What does Mameh finally do to make extra money?
(a) Shoplift from small stores.
(b) Submit to the advances of her employer.
(c) Dance in a burlesque house.
(d) Work as a roommaid in a hotel.

15. How is it possible for them to travel cheaply?
(a) They slip into empty cattle cars and hide from the watchmen.
(b) They stop in each town and Tateh does his silhouettes.
(c) They get a discount because of the girl.
(d) They can change lines at each rail terminus and keep going.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Houdini brooding while walking the streets of New York?

2. What does Father present to commander Perry before he heads out to the North Pole?

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

4. What happened often when Freud was around Jung?

5. What does the author show between the characters of Evelyn and Tateh?

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