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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 14 and 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To where does Younger Brother ride the streetcar?
(a) To Woolworth's.
(b) To the Rialto Theater.
(c) To the community college.
(d) To the end of the line.

2. What does Father see in his bathroom mirror after he returns?
(a) How much young her looked.
(b) The gaunt, bearded face of a homeless man.
(c) How much stronger he looked.
(d) How fat he had become eating Esquimo food.

3. What was Freud's judgment about America?
(a) He said it was ahead of its time.
(b) He said it was a gigantic mistake.
(c) He said it had left eruope behind.
(d) He said it was a poor copy of Europe.

4. 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.

5. Where does Evelyn go when she doesn't find Tateh and the girl one day?
(a) To a detective to look for them.
(b) To the police to file a missing person's report.
(c) Back to her house to cry.
(d) To their 2-room flat over a public bath.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they do the day before the expedition heads out for the North Pole?

2. Who becomes Evelyn's lover?

3. What is a theme established in the first two chapters?

4. Where does the story of RAGTIME begin?

5. What is Goldman's political stance?

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