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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 11 and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Houdini do in Germany?
(a) Learn to play the violin.
(b) Walk on the wings of a flying plane.
(c) Learn to pilot a Voisin.
(d) Hang from a flying plane by his teeth.

2. Why is Houdini brooding while walking the streets of New York?
(a) He wants to become a pilot but no one will teach him.
(b) He is thinking about the possibility of his death.
(c) It is real world adventures that people remember and not his magic tricks.
(d) He cannot come up with any new tricks because he has done them all.

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

4. With whom is Father planning to travel to the North Pole?
(a) David Livingstone.
(b) Charles Lindburg.
(c) Ronald Amundsen.
(d) Admiral Robert Peary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do most of the 1mmigrants find as they settle in New York?

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

3. Why does Evelyn call the old man Tateh?

4. What does Mother insist on doing with the baby and its mother?

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

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