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

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

3. Why does Evelyn call the old man Tateh?
(a) Because his clothes looked tattered.
(b) Because he would not tell her his real name.
(c) Because she met him on Tateh Street.
(d) Because he cannot pronounce his Hebrew name.

4. In the late 1800s, what seemed to happen in one hundreds?
(a) Songs written; immigrant boats arrived; fires broke out.
(b) Elections held; charity balls held; new newspapers started.
(c) Negores lynched; miners burned alive; children mutilated.
(d) Roads built; farms shut down; factories opened.

5. From where does the North Pole expedition set off?
(a) New York Harbor.
(b) Boston Harbor.
(c) Bangor, Maine.
(d) Lake Erie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who took up the dare to escape from The Tombs?

2. What does Mameh finally do to make extra money?

3. What is Matthew Henson's special knowledge that make him invaluable to Perry?

4. What does the arrival of the immigrants symbolize?

5. Where do the police find the mother of the baby?

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