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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)

Amnesia.
Self defense.
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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Take long sleigh rides.
Skate on the New Rochelle pond.
Clean sidewalks for sick people.
Stay inside by the fireplace.
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.
Rockefeller.
Astor.
J. P. Morgan.
7)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To rub his affluence in other people's noses.
To make sure he is on top in business.
For the sake of the image of the country.
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 of the Old West.
Tales from Ovid.
Tales from his youth.
14)

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

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

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

Hang from a flying plane by his teeth.
Walk on the wings of a flying plane.
Learn to play the violin.
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.
Father, Mother, Younger Brother, and The Boy.
Hired mourners.
New York policemen.
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 photos in the papers made Coalhouse even angrier.
No one was interested in coming to see it.
The authorities were embarrassed because it showed the cruelty imposed on Coalhouse.
The new police chief announced it was the work of communists.
18)

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

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

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

Baron Ashkenazy.
The fat New Yorkers.
A child who comes to play with the baby.
The family from Philadelphia.
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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Washington Irving.
Edgar Allen Poe.
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)

Gulls.
Bluebirds.
Small children.
Sparrows.
25)

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

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