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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 18, 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Houdini brooding while walking the streets of New York?
(a) He cannot come up with any new tricks because he has done them all.
(b) He is thinking about the possibility of his death.
(c) He wants to become a pilot but no one will teach him.
(d) It is real world adventures that people remember and not his magic tricks.

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

3. After a second trial, what sentence does Harry K. Shaw receive?
(a) Remanded to the Manhattan Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
(b) Seven years in prison.
(c) Life in prison.
(d) The electric chair.

4. Why are Tateh and the girl at home that day?
(a) Evelyn's husband has put out a contract on Tateh.
(b) Tateh is out of supplies and has no money to buy more.
(c) The girl is sick.
(d) They are hiding from Evelyn.

5. What resemblance does Morgan see in Henry Ford?
(a) A resemblance to Thomas Jefferson.
(b) A resemblance of Sethi I, Pharoah of Egypt.
(c) A resemblance to Napoleon Bonapart.
(d) A resemblance to a golden eagle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Evelyn go when she doesn't find Tateh and the girl one day?

2. What is the newspaperman, Jacob Riis, writing about at this time?

3. Why does he insist on living a grand style in Europe?

4. How does Morgan dress?

5. How does Tateh entertain The Girl at home?

(see the answer key)

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