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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 32, 33 and 34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What stories does Grandfather tell The Boy?
(a) Tales from his youth.
(b) Aesop's fables.
(c) Tales from Ovid.
(d) Tales of the Old West.

2. Is Perry able to locate the exact spot of the North Pole?
(a) No, but there is no doubt he was there.
(b) Yes, because of the red and white pole standing there.
(c) Yes, because the house of Santa Claus is there.
(d) No, because the compass does not function there.

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

4. Who did Houdini meet at a private function thrown by Mr. Stuyvesant Fish?
(a) P. T. Barnum.
(b) Al Jolson.
(c) Theodore Dreiser.
(d) Tavinia Warren Thumb.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the truth about Baron Ashkenazy?

2. What does Father observe about the game of baseball as opposed to the way they played at Harvard twenty years before?

3. As the procession crosses into Brooklyn, what is seen settling on the rails of the Brooklyn Bridge?

4. What does Tateh do for the strike organizers?

5. What was Freud's judgment about America?

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