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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. What has Mother accomplished during Father's absence?
(a) She has cut her hair and started wearing the latest fashions.
(b) She has opened a music school in the parlor.
(c) She has taken on executive responsibility for the business.
(d) She has become a social worker.

2. What does Tateh do for the strike organizers?
(a) He carries their luggage.
(b) He makes posters.
(c) He writes songs for the strikers to sing.
(d) He cooks their meals.

3. What worries Tateh as he observes The Girl?
(a) She is maturing and has no mother to guide her.
(b) She has no color from staying inside so long.
(c) She slouches like a depressed person.
(d) She doesn't seem to be growing.

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

5. Who was the royal person who came to see Houdini fly his plane?
(a) The King of Spain.
(b) The Archduke Ferdinand.
(c) Queen Victoria.
(d) The Prince of Wales.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Tateh and the girl at home that day?

2. What do Mother, The Boy, and Younger Brother do in the winter time?

3. What is Goldman's political stance?

4. On board the Roosevelt, how does Admiral Perry live?

5. What is worrying Mother back in New Rochelle?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Houdini thrown out of Bellevue Hospital?

2. What idea does Tateh have that makes them money.

3. Who are the famous psychologists who visit New York at this time and what is their reaction?

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

5. What does newspaperman Riis find when he goes to the docks to interview Stanford white about housing for the poor?

6. What does The boy see Mother do in the back garden?

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

8. Why does socialite Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish bring Houdini and circus freaks to her house?

9. Explain how Harry K. Shaw gets to see Harry Houdini.

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

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