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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 29, 30 and 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who will be speaking at the meeting Evelyn goes to with Tateh and the girl?
(a) Teddy Roosevelt.
(b) Harry Houdini.
(c) Clara Barton.
(d) Emma Goldman.

2. What new activity does Younger Brother take up?
(a) Writing poetry for the newspapers.
(b) Gambling on the horses.
(c) Going to Broadway plays and waiting in the alley for the stars.
(d) Learning how to tap dance.

3. Where does The Boy get some of Tateh's silhouettes?
(a) At a flea market in New York.
(b) Evelyn Nesbit gives them to him.
(c) From a penny store in New Rochelle.
(d) Where Younger Brother had thrown them in the trash.

4. Where does Harry K. Thaw go after his escape?
(a) Canada.
(b) Europe.
(c) To Evelyn's apartment.
(d) To New Rochelle.

5. Why is Houdini's mothers grave covered with a mound of small stones?
(a) They are there to discourage grave robbers.
(b) Each stone has a message written on it.
(c) It is a Jewish custome to leave a samll stone at every visit to a gravesite.
(d) It is a new cenetary and no grass has been planted yert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Father and The Boy go in spite of the tension surrounding Coalhouse's being at large?

2. Who in the family understands and admires Coalhouse?

3. How had Father gotten his start in business?

4. What plea does Shaw's mother want him to make in court but he flatly refuses?

5. Why is Houdini brooding while walking the streets of New York?

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