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

2. Most people think that it was the work of a group of armed men, but what does the newspaper suggest?
(a) It was the work of one crazed killer.
(b) It was the Fire Chief.
(c) It was someone who mistook the station for a bank.
(d) It was an inside job.

3. What happens one night that shakes the theater where Houdini had just performed?
(a) A head-on train wreck.
(b) A German bomb attack on New York.
(c) An explosion at the Emerald Isle Fire House.
(d) A boiler blew up in the theater.

4. What does Coalhouse Walker, Jr., do to identify himself.
(a) He writes letter to the mayor saying that Father's fireworks factory will be next.
(b) He writes messaged on walls all over town that he wants to kill the Fire Chief.
(c) He spreads a rumor that he is the one the police are looking for.
(d) He leaves letters at newspapers that he wants the Fire Chief turned over to him and his car returned in new condition.

5. Where does Evelyn go when she doesn't find Tateh and the girl one day?
(a) Back to her house to cry.
(b) To their 2-room flat over a public bath.
(c) To the police to file a missing person's report.
(d) To a detective to look for them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of car is Evelyn being chauffeured in as she goes around in New York?

2. Where do Tateh and The Girl go to warm up after spending the night in the train station?

3. What do the Hebrew letters on storefronts look like to Evelyn?

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

5. Why does The Girl like the strike?

(see the answer key)

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