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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. 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 would dance when the rope was pulled.
(c) Because girls and women were often kidnapped.
(d) Because the girl was insane.

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

3. What is Evelyn Nesbit doing before her husband's trial?
(a) Rehearsing what she will say on the stand.
(b) Shopping for new clothes to wear to her husband's trial.
(c) Having an affair with the doorman.
(d) Writing her memoirs.

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

5. Who does Mother call after she and the maid clean up the baby?
(a) The Welfare Department.
(b) Grandfather.
(c) Her next door neighbor.
(d) A doctor and the police.

Short Answer Questions

1. On board the Roosevelt, how does Admiral Perry live?

2. What began to be heard in the ghettos?

3. What was a main reason for men losing their jobs about the turn of the century?

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

5. Seeing the man who has been following her, what does Evelyn think?

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