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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a theme established in the first two chapters?
(a) Immigartion.
(b) Isolationism.
(c) Adventure.
(d) Patriotism.

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

4. Seeing the man who has been following her, what does Evelyn think?
(a) That he is a deranged man stalking her.
(b) That he's a detective hired by her mother-in-law to follow her.
(c) That he's a policeman assigned to protect her.
(d) That he is a fan who wants her autograph.

5. What was a popular type of entertainment show in those days?
(a) Classic concerts.
(b) Color motion pictures.
(c) Sing alongs.
(d) Minstrels in black face.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is the girl tied by a rope to the old man's wrists?

3. What is the newspaperman, Jacob Riis, writing about at this time?

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

5. What is Evelyn Nesbit doing before her husband's trial?

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