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

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

3. From where does the North Pole expedition set off?
(a) New York Harbor.
(b) Bangor, Maine.
(c) Lake Erie.
(d) Boston Harbor.

4. At the jail called The Tombs, what do the guards invent?
(a) A new type of leg irons they claim to be inescapable.
(b) An escape-proof solitary confinement cell.
(c) A jail cell that cannot be opened without a key and a combination.
(d) New handcuffs that cannot be opened without a key.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is on the mind of Mother's Younger Brother?

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

3. What began to be heard in the ghettos?

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

5. What was Freud's judgment about America?

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