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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 was a main reason for men losing their jobs about the turn of the century?
(a) New immagrants working for less money.
(b) Attempting to form unions.
(c) Companies going bankrupt.
(d) Catching tuberculosis.

2. What does Mother find buried in her garden?
(a) A litter of kittens.
(b) Younger Brother's love letters.
(c) A newborn baby.
(d) A treasure chest.

3. Why does Evelyn call the old man Tateh?
(a) Because he would not tell her his real name.
(b) Because he cannot pronounce his Hebrew name.
(c) Because his clothes looked tattered.
(d) Because she met him on Tateh Street.

4. When the New York City papers get the story, what happens with Chief Conklin?
(a) He has to go into hiding.
(b) He becomes hated as the perpetrator of the act of revenge.
(c) He becomes a target for former abolutionists.
(d) He becomes a state-wide hero.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Father see in his bathroom mirror after he returns?

2. Who was the royal person who came to see Houdini fly his plane?

3. What was the physical condition of the rich prior to William Howard Taft becoming President?

4. What does Perry do after the flag is set up?

5. What is the result when the newspapers succeed in getting the Model-T raised from the pond?

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