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

2. What do the Hebrew letters on storefronts look like to Evelyn?
(a) Graffiti.
(b) Bones.
(c) Scratches.
(d) Tally marks.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Tateh and the girl at home that day?

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

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

4. What does the arrival of the immigrants symbolize?

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

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