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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. Who is on the mind of Mother's Younger Brother?
(a) Nora Desmond.
(b) Clara Bow.
(c) Evelyn Nesbit.
(d) Greta Garbo.

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

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

4. Where does the story of RAGTIME begin?
(a) New Rochelle, New York.
(b) Manhattan, New York.
(c) Brooklyn, New York.
(d) Albany, New York.

5. Where do Father and The Boy go in spite of the tension surrounding Coalhouse's being at large?
(a) A Giants baseball game.
(b) To see the Statue of Liberty.
(c) To Coney Island.
(d) On a drive through Harlem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a theme established in the first two chapters?

2. What does Evelyn see that causes her to order the driver to stop the car?

3. Where is Sarah funeral held?

4. Who was in the opposite cell of The Tombs as the great escape artist worked his feat?

5. What lecture does Emma Goldman give Younger Brother?

(see the answer key)

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