Ragtime Test | Final Test - Easy

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Ragtime Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a reporter looks up Houdini to get his reaction to the escape, where is he found?
(a) In the theater.
(b) On his way to Europe.
(c) Escaping from a trunk in the East River.
(d) At his mother's grave.

2. Where do Father and The Boy go in spite of the tension surrounding Coalhouse's being at large?
(a) A Giants baseball game.
(b) To see the Statue of Liberty.
(c) On a drive through Harlem.
(d) To Coney Island.

3. What happens one night that shakes the theater where Houdini had just performed?
(a) A boiler blew up in the theater.
(b) A German bomb attack on New York.
(c) An explosion at the Emerald Isle Fire House.
(d) A head-on train wreck.

4. What newsworthy event happens at Matteawan State Prison Farm in the spring?
(a) Harry K. Thaw escapes.
(b) Harry K. Thaw is executed.
(c) Harry K. Thaw is given a new trial.
(d) Harry K. thaw is released.

5. How is the funeral described?
(a) Small and intimate.
(b) Pitiful.
(c) Lavish.
(d) Bleak.

6. Who comes to try and talk Coalhouse into surrendering?
(a) Willie Conklin.
(b) Emma Goldman.
(c) Mother.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

7. What happens to Coalhouse after he comes out of the museum with his hands raised?
(a) He is attacked by Willie Conklin.
(b) He gets away when the generators fail.
(c) He is executed in a volly of gunfire.
(d) He is taken to jail.

8. How does Morgan dress?
(a) Simply, like a laborer.
(b) Expensive clothes slightly out of fashion.
(c) Fashionably for his day.
(d) Extravagantly, like a prince.

9. What does Mother notice about the change in Sarah's face?
(a) She is awed by her beauty.
(b) She notices Sarah has broken out in a rash.
(c) She pities her because she is so plain.
(d) She thinks Sarah's face was getting darker.

10. What happens to Sarah as she tries to approach a man she thought was the President?
(a) She is trampled by the crowd.
(b) She is hit in the chest with the butt of a rifle.
(c) She is turned away and not allowed to come close.
(d) Sheis stoned by the crowd.

11. Who does Morgan want to meet?
(a) Evelyn Nesbit.
(b) Sarah Burnhardt.
(c) Father.
(d) Henry Ford.

12. How had Father gotten his start in business?
(a) As an orphan, when he reached maturity he inherited a small amount of money.
(b) He was apprenticed to an Italian fireworks maker.
(c) He discovered a buried treasure.
(d) His rich uncle left the business to him.

13. Why does he insist on living a grand style in Europe?
(a) To be able to turn down invitations from kings.
(b) For the sake of the image of the country.
(c) To rub his affluence in other people's noses.
(d) To make sure he is on top in business.

14. What is the first response to the police from the museum?
(a) A mutilated Rembrandt.
(b) A grenade thrown into the street.
(c) A gun shot.
(d) Dead silence.

15. As the procession crosses into Brooklyn, what is seen settling on the rails of the Brooklyn Bridge?
(a) Sparrows.
(b) Bluebirds.
(c) Small children.
(d) Gulls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What innovation of Henry Ford's was about to revolutionize American manufacturing?

2. Who captures Mother's interest in Atlantic City?

3. What does Sarah decide to do to help Coalhouse?

4. What finally really captures Morgan's attention in the world?

5. What happens at the Emerald Isle Fire Station?

(see the answer keys)

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