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

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

3. What do Mother, The Boy, and Younger Brother do in the winter time?
(a) Skate on the New Rochelle pond.
(b) Clean sidewalks for sick people.
(c) Take long sleigh rides.
(d) Stay inside by the fireplace.

4. Where do Tateh and The Girl go to warm up after spending the night in the train station?
(a) A small cafe.
(b) A movie theater.
(c) A Philadelphia Department Store.
(d) A synagogue.

5. What famous person is in the auto accident in front of Father's house?
(a) Evelyn Nesbit.
(b) Will Bill Cody.
(c) J. P. Morgan.
(d) Harry Houdini.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Father find on Mother's bedside table?

2. What is worrying Mother back in New Rochelle?

3. What do the Hebrew letters on storefronts look like to Evelyn?

4. What type of labor was favored in the factories then?

5. What does Father observe about the game of baseball as opposed to the way they played at Harvard twenty years before?

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