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

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

3. What does the arrival of the immigrants symbolize?
(a) That the weather will turn bad.
(b) That there are changes coming for the country.
(c) That the world economy is failing.
(d) That a famine is headed for America.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the jail called The Tombs, what do the guards invent?

2. What type of labor was favored in the factories then?

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

4. Who took up the dare to escape from The Tombs?

5. What does Father notice as the expedition sails out of the harbor?

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