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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 happens with Tateh and his little girl after they left the Goldman lecture?
(a) Tateh decides they must leave the city where he had such bad luck.
(b) Tateh puts new locks on their door.
(c) They find a ship and return to Europe.
(d) They move into another tenement.

2. What does Mother insist on doing with the baby and its mother?
(a) Keeping them at her house.
(b) Keeping the baby and filing charges against the mother.
(c) Sending them to the county jail.
(d) Taking them to a shelter.

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

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

5. Is Perry able to locate the exact spot of the North Pole?
(a) No, but there is no doubt he was there.
(b) No, because the compass does not function there.
(c) Yes, because the house of Santa Claus is there.
(d) Yes, because of the red and white pole standing there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What plea does Shaw's mother want him to make in court but he flatly refuses?

2. What does Evelyn do with most of her money?

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

4. Why does Harry K. Shaw receive special privileges in jail?

5. What causes the Little Girl to stop working?

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