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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 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.

2. Why does Evelyn call the old man Tateh?
(a) Because he would not tell her his real name.
(b) Because he cannot pronounce his Hebrew name.
(c) Because his clothes looked tattered.
(d) Because she met him on Tateh Street.

3. Why is the girl tied by a rope to the old man's wrists?
(a) Because the girl was insane.
(b) Because the girl would dance when the rope was pulled.
(c) Because girls and women were often kidnapped.
(d) Because the old man was bline.

4. The winter The Boy was skating on the pond, where were Tateh and The Girl?
(a) Lawrence, Massachusetts.
(b) Newark, New Jersey.
(c) Bangor, Maine.
(d) New Haven, Connecticutt.

5. What do the Hebrew letters on storefronts look like to Evelyn?
(a) Graffiti.
(b) Scratches.
(c) Tally marks.
(d) Bones.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Evelyn hope for in her husband's trial?

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

3. When a reporter looks up Houdini to get his reaction to the escape, where is he found?

4. After his mother's death, what does Houdini set out to do?

5. What do the police discover as they go through the wreckage of the demolished building?

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