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

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

3. What plea does Shaw's mother want him to make in court but he flatly refuses?
(a) No lo contendre.
(b) Self defense.
(c) Insanity.
(d) Amnesia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where are the immigrants ushered as they enter New York Harbor?

3. Who wrote Morgan's favorite story, The Birthmark?

4. Why does Harry K. Shaw receive special privileges in jail?

5. How does Tateh entertain The Girl at home?

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