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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 is the newspaperman, Jacob Riis, writing about at this time?
(a) The trial of the century.
(b) The music in Harlem.
(c) Better housing for the poor.
(d) Stopping the flow of emigrants into the country.

2. What type of labor was favored in the factories then?
(a) Irish labor.
(b) Child labor.
(c) Black labor.
(d) Female labor.

3. Where does Evelyn go when she doesn't find Tateh and the girl one day?
(a) To their 2-room flat over a public bath.
(b) Back to her house to cry.
(c) To the police to file a missing person's report.
(d) To a detective to look for them.

4. On board the Roosevelt, how does Admiral Perry live?
(a) He lives as ruggedly as the Esquimos.
(b) He is the most comfortable with a player piano in his cabin.
(c) He shares a cabin with Father and Matthew Henson.
(d) He takes an Esquimo woman for a bed warmer.

5. To where does Younger Brother ride the streetcar?
(a) To the community college.
(b) To Woolworth's.
(c) To the Rialto Theater.
(d) To the end of the line.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is on the mind of Mother's Younger Brother?

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

3. What causes the Little Girl to stop working?

4. What does Father manufacture?

5. What is Goldman's political stance?

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