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Ragtime | Quiz

E. L. Doctorow
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Ragtime | Quiz

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1)

What plea does Shaw's mother want him to make in court but he flatly refuses? (from Part 1, Chapters 11 and 12)

Self defense.
Amnesia.
No lo contendre.
Insanity.
2)

What is the first response to the police from the museum? (from Part 3, Chapters 35, 36, 37, 38 and 39)

A mutilated Rembrandt.
A grenade thrown into the street.
A gun shot.
Dead silence.
3)

What does Father see in his bathroom mirror after he returns? (from Part 2, Chapters 14 and 15)

The gaunt, bearded face of a homeless man.
How fat he had become eating Esquimo food.
How much young her looked.
How much stronger he looked.
4)

Why is Houdini brooding while walking the streets of New York? (from Part 1, Chapters 11 and 12)

He wants to become a pilot but no one will teach him.
He cannot come up with any new tricks because he has done them all.
He is thinking about the possibility of his death.
It is real world adventures that people remember and not his magic tricks.
5)

What do Mother, The Boy, and Younger Brother do in the winter time? (from Part 2, Chapters 14 and 15)

Stay inside by the fireplace.
Take long sleigh rides.
Skate on the New Rochelle pond.
Clean sidewalks for sick people.
6)

At that time, who was at the top of the business pyramid in the USA? (from Part 2, Chapters 18, 19 and 20)

Carnegie.
J. P. Morgan.
Rockefeller.
Astor.
7)

Why do Coalhouse and his boys end up in the marble museum? (from Part 3, Chapters 35, 36, 37, 38 and 39)

The Morgan house was heavily guarded.
The museum had more room.
The boys could not find Morgan's house.
The boys scouted out the wrong building.
8)

Who gets the rebuilt Model-T? (from Part 4, Chapter 40)

Father.
Emma Goldman.
Younger Brother.
Willie conklin.
9)

What does Tateh have that finally makes them money? (from Part 2, Chapters 16 and 17)

His art supplies.
The Girl's new cloak and hat.
His new coat and tie.
The flip book he made for The Girl which he sells for $25.
10)

What does Father do with all the family watching? (from Part 2, Chapters 14 and 15)

Reads pages from his journal.
Plays tunes on an ivory cared flute.
Passes out gifts he brought back from the Arctic.
Shows them an Esquimo dance.
11)

After his mother's death, what does Houdini set out to do? (from Part 2, Chapters 27 and 28)

Learn all he can about reincarnation.
Sue the doctors who did not keep her alive.
Find a baby that was born at the exact minute she died.
Find a true medium who can communicate with the dead.
12)

Why does he insist on living a grand style in Europe? (from Part 2, Chapters 18, 19 and 20)

For the sake of the image of the country.
To rub his affluence in other people's noses.
To make sure he is on top in business.
To be able to turn down invitations from kings.
13)

What stories does Grandfather tell The Boy? (from Part 2, Chapters 14 and 15)

Aesop's fables.
Tales from Ovid.
Tales from his youth.
Tales of the Old West.
14)

Where does Father and the family go to get away from the tension? (from Part 3, Chapters 29, 30 and 31)

Atlantic City.
Philadelphia.
Boston.
New York City.
15)

What does Houdini do in Germany? (from Part 1, Chapters 11 and 12)

Walk on the wings of a flying plane.
Learn to play the violin.
Hang from a flying plane by his teeth.
Learn to pilot a Voisin.
16)

Who were most of the mourners at Sarah's funeral? (from Part 2, Chapters 25 and 26)

Musician friends of Coalhouse.
New York policemen.
Hired mourners.
Father, Mother, Younger Brother, and The Boy.
17)

What is the result when the newspapers succeed in getting the Model-T raised from the pond? (from Part 3, Chapters 29, 30 and 31)

The authorities were embarrassed because it showed the cruelty imposed on Coalhouse.
The new police chief announced it was the work of communists.
No one was interested in coming to see it.
The photos in the papers made Coalhouse even angrier.
18)

What happens at the Emerald Isle Fire Station? (from Part 2, Chapters 21, 22, 23 and 24)

Father provides the bunting for a barbecue.
Young brother goes to apply for a job.
Coalhouse is not allowed to pass and his car is vandalized.
Coalhouse and Sarah get married.
19)

Who captures Mother's interest in Atlantic City? (from Part 3, Chapters 32, 33 and 34)

The fat New Yorkers.
Baron Ashkenazy.
The family from Philadelphia.
A child who comes to play with the baby.
20)

What happens to Coalhouse after he comes out of the museum with his hands raised? (from Part 4, Chapter 40)

He is taken to jail.
He is executed in a volly of gunfire.
He gets away when the generators fail.
He is attacked by Willie Conklin.
21)

Where do Tateh and The Girl go to warm up after spending the night in the train station? (from Part 2, Chapters 16 and 17)

A movie theater.
A synagogue.
A small cafe.
A Philadelphia Department Store.
22)

What happens to Sarah in the hospital? (from Part 2, Chapters 25 and 26)

She dies.
Coalhouse breaks their engagement.
Sarah losses her memory.
She recovers.
23)

Who wrote Morgan's favorite story, The Birthmark? (from Part 2, Chapters 18, 19 and 20)

Theodore Dreiser.
Edgar Allen Poe.
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Washington Irving.
24)

As the procession crosses into Brooklyn, what is seen settling on the rails of the Brooklyn Bridge? (from Part 2, Chapters 25 and 26)

Bluebirds.
Sparrows.
Gulls.
Small children.
25)

What happens with Tateh and his little girl after they left the Goldman lecture? (from Part 1, Chapters 11 and 12)

Tateh decides they must leave the city where he had such bad luck.
They move into another tenement.
They find a ship and return to Europe.
Tateh puts new locks on their door.
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