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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 was a main reason for men losing their jobs about the turn of the century?
(a) Companies going bankrupt.
(b) Catching tuberculosis.
(c) New immagrants working for less money.
(d) Attempting to form unions.

2. What happens one night that shakes the theater where Houdini had just performed?
(a) An explosion at the Emerald Isle Fire House.
(b) A German bomb attack on New York.
(c) A boiler blew up in the theater.
(d) A head-on train wreck.

3. Why does Evelyn call the old man Tateh?
(a) Because he would not tell her his real name.
(b) Because his clothes looked tattered.
(c) Because she met him on Tateh Street.
(d) Because he cannot pronounce his Hebrew name.

4. What does Doctorow suggest Sigmund Freud's revenge on America was?
(a) Turning Carl Jung loose on America.
(b) Destroying sex in America forever.
(c) Sending his European students to America.
(d) Having so many psychiatrists in America.

5. What is worrying Mother back in New Rochelle?
(a) Little Boy is refusing to go to school.
(b) Father is still gone and she hasn't heard from Younger Brother in days.
(c) She is out of the money that Father left her.
(d) The roof is leading and there is no one to call a repairman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does The Boy get some of Tateh's silhouettes?

2. Who were most of the mourners at Sarah's funeral?

3. What is Father's relationship with Mother after he returns from the Arctic?

4. What does Coalhouse Walker, Jr., do to identify himself.

5. What change is obvious in Younger Brother?

(see the answer key)

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