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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who becomes Evelyn's lover?
(a) Goldman.
(b) Tateh.
(c) Houdini.
(d) Younger Brother.

2. Where does The Boy get some of Tateh's silhouettes?
(a) Where Younger Brother had thrown them in the trash.
(b) Evelyn Nesbit gives them to him.
(c) At a flea market in New York.
(d) From a penny store in New Rochelle.

3. What does Riis call his colored map of Manhattan?
(a) A colored chart of districts.
(b) A crazy quilt of races.
(c) Better than a train schedule.
(d) A guide to the theaters.

4. As the strike wears on, what is being done for the children?
(a) They are enlisted to march in the picket lines.
(b) They are being boarded by wealthy families in other cities.
(c) They are sent to private schools.
(d) They are given extra rations in the soup kitchens.

5. When Freud visited New York and saw the early motion pictures, what was his thought?
(a) At least they are silent.
(b) They hurt my eyes.
(c) These could be used on my patients.
(d) Americans have too much leisure time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the story of RAGTIME begin?

2. Who will be speaking at the meeting Evelyn goes to with Tateh and the girl?

3. What is Goldman's political stance?

4. What does Evelyn receive in her divorce settlement?

5. What is Little Boy wishing for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the gossip about Evelyn's disappearances to visit The Girl?

2. How are Tateh and The Girl rescued from being separated?

3. What are the lead workers doing as Perry comes leisurely behind?

4. What is it that Evelyn Nesbit does not understand when she sees The Girl tied to her father?

5. What does The Boy recover from the trash?

6. How is Father sent off on his trip with the Perry expedition to the North Pole?

7. What is Perry's attitude towards the Esquimo people?

8. What does The Boy think bronze statues are?

9. What does Evelyn see when she goes with Tateh to a socialist meeting?

10. How do the second generation Irish feel about the new immigrants?

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