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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 has Mother accomplished during Father's absence?
(a) She has become a social worker.
(b) She has cut her hair and started wearing the latest fashions.
(c) She has opened a music school in the parlor.
(d) She has taken on executive responsibility for the business.

2. How is the funeral described?
(a) Small and intimate.
(b) Bleak.
(c) Pitiful.
(d) Lavish.

3. 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) They find a ship and return to Europe.
(c) Tateh puts new locks on their door.
(d) They move into another tenement.

4. Who did Houdini meet at a private function thrown by Mr. Stuyvesant Fish?
(a) P. T. Barnum.
(b) Tavinia Warren Thumb.
(c) Al Jolson.
(d) Theodore Dreiser.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is it possible for them to travel cheaply?

2. What is worrying Mother back in New Rochelle?

3. How has The Boy changed?

4. What does Father think about when he sees the new immigrants?

5. When Freud visited New York and saw the early motion pictures, what was his thought?

(see the answer key)

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