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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the arrival of the immigrants symbolize?
(a) That there are changes coming for the country.
(b) That a famine is headed for America.
(c) That the weather will turn bad.
(d) That the world economy is failing.

2. What causes the Little Girl to stop working?
(a) She is kidnapped by pimps.
(b) She falls and breaks her hand.
(c) She gets tuberculosis.
(d) She is forced to go to school.

3. Where are the immigrants ushered as they enter New York Harbor?
(a) Ellis Island.
(b) Long Island.
(c) Staten Island.
(d) Manhattan Island.

4. Where do the police find the mother of the baby?
(a) In the cellar of a house in the next block.
(b) In the railway station.
(c) Up in a tree near Mother's house.
(d) Inside Mother's rain barrel.

5. What does Father think about when he sees the new immigrants?
(a) That there will be more crime in New York.
(b) That there will be new competition for his business.
(c) That they all buy American flags.
(d) That there are too many immigrants coming into the USA.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the late 1800s, what seemed to happen in one hundreds?

2. From where does the North Pole expedition set off?

3. What does Father notice as the expedition sails out of the harbor?

4. What do they do the day before the expedition heads out for the North Pole?

5. Who took up the dare to escape from The Tombs?

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