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

2. What does Father do with all the family watching?
(a) Plays tunes on an ivory cared flute.
(b) Reads pages from his journal.
(c) Passes out gifts he brought back from the Arctic.
(d) Shows them an Esquimo dance.

3. What plea does Shaw's mother want him to make in court but he flatly refuses?
(a) Self defense.
(b) Amnesia.
(c) No lo contendre.
(d) Insanity.

4. What kind of car is Evelyn being chauffeured in as she goes around in New York?
(a) A black Detroit Electric.
(b) A Ford Model A.
(c) A Packard Limousine.
(d) A REO.

5. What does Doctorow suggest Sigmund Freud's revenge on America was?
(a) Having so many psychiatrists in America.
(b) Destroying sex in America forever.
(c) Turning Carl Jung loose on America.
(d) Sending his European students to America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Father see in his bathroom mirror after he returns?

2. What does The Boy think happens to people, animals, or objects in a motion picture?

3. What is Goldman's political stance?

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

5. What is Father's great guilt?

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