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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 Evelyn Nesbit doing before her husband's trial?
(a) Rehearsing what she will say on the stand.
(b) Shopping for new clothes to wear to her husband's trial.
(c) Writing her memoirs.
(d) Having an affair with the doorman.

2. After his mother's death, what does Houdini set out to do?
(a) Find a true medium who can communicate with the dead.
(b) Sue the doctors who did not keep her alive.
(c) Learn all he can about reincarnation.
(d) Find a baby that was born at the exact minute she died.

3. Why is Houdini brooding while walking the streets of New York?
(a) It is real world adventures that people remember and not his magic tricks.
(b) He cannot come up with any new tricks because he has done them all.
(c) He is thinking about the possibility of his death.
(d) He wants to become a pilot but no one will teach him.

4. Who wrote Morgan's favorite story, The Birthmark?
(a) Washington Irving.
(b) Edgar Allen Poe.
(c) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(d) Theodore Dreiser.

5. What type of labor was favored in the factories then?
(a) Irish labor.
(b) Child labor.
(c) Black labor.
(d) Female labor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Father go to the police?

2. What does Father propose to do for Coalhouse?

3. How is it possible for them to travel cheaply?

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

5. Where do Tateh and The Girl go to warm up after spending the night in the train station?

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