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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What began to be heard in the ghettos?
(a) The rattle of streetcars.
(b) The calls of ice venders.
(c) The sounds of piano lessons.
(d) The people speaking English.

3. Why does Harry K. Shaw receive special privileges in jail?
(a) Because his father bribes the jailers.
(b) Because he is a close friend of the mayor.
(c) Because he is the governor of New York.
(d) Because of his and Everlyn's celebrity.

4. What happened often when Freud was around Jung?
(a) He had fainting fits.
(b) He wanted to throw up.
(c) He listened intently.
(d) He laughed uproarously.

5. What is Evelyn Nesbit doing before her husband's trial?
(a) Writing her memoirs.
(b) Shopping for new clothes to wear to her husband's trial.
(c) Rehearsing what she will say on the stand.
(d) Having an affair with the doorman.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the late 1800s, what seemed to happen in one hundreds?

2. What causes the Little Girl to stop working?

3. What was Freud's judgment about America?

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

5. What does Riis call his colored map of Manhattan?

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