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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 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.

2. What does Father notice as the expedition sails out of the harbor?
(a) How the temperature is already dropping.
(b) A rag ship arraving with new immigrants.
(c) A fireworks display in thier honor.
(d) The U.S. Navy escort ship.

3. Who was in the opposite cell of The Tombs as the great escape artist worked his feat?
(a) Harry K. Shaw.
(b) Theodore Dreiser.
(c) Al Jolson.
(d) Carl Jung.

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

5. What type of labor was favored in the factories then?
(a) Female labor.
(b) Child labor.
(c) Black labor.
(d) Irish labor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened often when Freud was around Jung?

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

3. What began to be heard in the ghettos?

4. Where are the immigrants ushered as they enter New York Harbor?

5. which immigrants are sent back home?

(see the answer key)

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