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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) The welfare office is overrun.
(b) The worker all leave to head West.
(c) Tateh contemplates suicide.
(d) The workers go on strike.

2. At the jail called The Tombs, what do the guards invent?
(a) A new type of leg irons they claim to be inescapable.
(b) New handcuffs that cannot be opened without a key.
(c) An escape-proof solitary confinement cell.
(d) A jail cell that cannot be opened without a key and a combination.

3. What does the author show between the characters of Evelyn and Tateh?
(a) That everyone has a great opportunity in New York.
(b) The vast cultural difference between classes at that time.
(c) That men have more talent than women.
(d) That women have a harder time than men.

4. Who was in the opposite cell of The Tombs as the great escape artist worked his feat?
(a) Theodore Dreiser.
(b) Al Jolson.
(c) Harry K. Shaw.
(d) Carl Jung.

5. Who was the royal person who came to see Houdini fly his plane?
(a) The Prince of Wales.
(b) The King of Spain.
(c) Queen Victoria.
(d) The Archduke Ferdinand.

Short Answer Questions

1. The winter The Boy was skating on the pond, where were Tateh and The Girl?

2. What does Father manufacture?

3. When a reporter looks up Houdini to get his reaction to the escape, where is he found?

4. Who did Houdini meet at a private function thrown by Mr. Stuyvesant Fish?

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

(see the answer key)

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