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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 Perry do after the flag is set up?
(a) He takes photos.
(b) He has sex with an Esquimo woman.
(c) He dances a jig.
(d) He rolls in the snow.

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

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

4. What do Mameh, Tateh, and the Little Girl do to make a living?
(a) Sing and dance on the streets.
(b) Sell on the streets and sew patches by hand.
(c) Make deliveries on bicycles.
(d) Take in boarders.

5. What do they do the day before the expedition heads out for the North Pole?
(a) Tear down the igloos they had built on deck.
(b) Climb the bird cliffs to catch birds and collect eggs.
(c) Spend a day in prayer and fasting.
(d) Choose Esquimo women to drive their dog sleds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Houdini meet at a private function thrown by Mr. Stuyvesant Fish?

2. Why are Tateh and the girl at home that day?

3. Why does Father not go to the Pole with Perry?

4. What is Matthew Henson's special knowledge that make him invaluable to Perry?

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

(see the answer key)

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