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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 kind of music does Coalhouse play?
(a) Ragtime.
(b) Modern jazz.
(c) Minstrel show tunes.
(d) Classical.

2. How does Tateh entertain The Girl at home?
(a) He makes silhouette thumb books for her to look at.
(b) He teaches her old Yiddish songs.
(c) He teaches her how to dance.
(d) He tells her stories of the old country.

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

4. which immigrants are sent back home?
(a) Those who are criminals.
(b) Those too old or ill.
(c) Those from Africa.
(d) Thos who cannot read.

5. On board the Roosevelt, how does Admiral Perry live?
(a) He takes an Esquimo woman for a bed warmer.
(b) He is the most comfortable with a player piano in his cabin.
(c) He lives as ruggedly as the Esquimos.
(d) He shares a cabin with Father and Matthew Henson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the girl tied by a rope to the old man's wrists?

2. What does Mother insist on doing with the baby and its mother?

3. Who wrote Morgan's favorite story, The Birthmark?

4. What does the family learn about Coalhouse Walker, Jr.?

5. What does Sarah decide to do to help Coalhouse?

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