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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. What is Matthew Henson's special knowledge that make him invaluable to Perry?
(a) He has an uncanny sense of direction.
(b) He can perform surgery.
(c) He is an expert chef.
(d) He is good at repairing dog sleds.

2. What happens with Tateh and his little girl after they left the Goldman lecture?
(a) They move into another tenement.
(b) They find a ship and return to Europe.
(c) Tateh puts new locks on their door.
(d) Tateh decides they must leave the city where he had such bad luck.

3. What happens when Tateh is beaten by the police and the train The Girl is on starts to move?
(a) He grabs a gun from a militiaman and starts shooting.
(b) He sits down and starts crying.
(c) He calls down a curse from heaven.
(d) He runs and grabs onto the back guardrail of the train.

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

5. Who were most of the mourners at Sarah's funeral?
(a) New York policemen.
(b) Musician friends of Coalhouse.
(c) Hired mourners.
(d) Father, Mother, Younger Brother, and The Boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who will be speaking at the meeting Evelyn goes to with Tateh and the girl?

2. What does Father do with all the family watching?

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

4. What happens when a woman striker is shot?

5. Why does The Girl like the strike?

(see the answer key)

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