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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 25 and 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Evelyn see that causes her to order the driver to stop the car?
(a) A dirty-faced girl.
(b) A sale on shawls.
(c) A lost puppy.
(d) An organ grinder with a monkey.

2. What happens when the American Woolen Company gives out envelopes with short pay?
(a) The workers go on strike.
(b) The welfare office is overrun.
(c) The worker all leave to head West.
(d) Tateh contemplates suicide.

3. Where do the police find the mother of the baby?
(a) Up in a tree near Mother's house.
(b) In the railway station.
(c) In the cellar of a house in the next block.
(d) Inside Mother's rain barrel.

4. Where is the train headed?
(a) Cincinati.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Omaha.
(d) Boston.

5. What does the arrival of the immigrants symbolize?
(a) That a famine is headed for America.
(b) That there are changes coming for the country.
(c) That the world economy is failing.
(d) That the weather will turn bad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Doctorow suggest Sigmund Freud's revenge on America was?

2. What innovation of Henry Ford's was about to revolutionize American manufacturing?

3. What has The Boy taken to doing now that Sarah is communicative?

4. Why does The Girl like the strike?

5. How has The Boy changed?

(see the answer key)

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