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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 27 and 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the American Woolen Company gives out envelopes with short pay?
(a) The welfare office is overrun.
(b) Tateh contemplates suicide.
(c) The worker all leave to head West.
(d) The workers go on strike.

2. Why is Houdini's mothers grave covered with a mound of small stones?
(a) It is a Jewish custome to leave a samll stone at every visit to a gravesite.
(b) Each stone has a message written on it.
(c) It is a new cenetary and no grass has been planted yert.
(d) They are there to discourage grave robbers.

3. What happens when Tateh is beaten by the police and the train The Girl is on starts to move?
(a) He sits down and starts crying.
(b) He runs and grabs onto the back guardrail of the train.
(c) He calls down a curse from heaven.
(d) He grabs a gun from a militiaman and starts shooting.

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

5. What happens when a woman striker is shot?
(a) The workers attack the police.
(b) Tateh gets elected leader.
(c) The militia is called away.
(d) The strike leaders are arrested for complicity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tateh have that finally makes them money?

2. What does Coalhouse Walker, Jr., do to identify himself.

3. What happens when the Young Man hides in Goldman's closet?

4. As the strike wears on, what is being done for the children?

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

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