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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Father think about when he sees the new immigrants?
(a) That there will be new competition for his business.
(b) That they all buy American flags.
(c) That there will be more crime in New York.
(d) That there are too many immigrants coming into the USA.

2. What does Mother insist on doing with the baby and its mother?
(a) Taking them to a shelter.
(b) Keeping them at her house.
(c) Keeping the baby and filing charges against the mother.
(d) Sending them to the county jail.

3. How has The Boy changed?
(a) He is taller and has lost some of his fat.
(b) He is like a stranger to Father.
(c) He has lost his interest in science.
(d) He has begun to copy Mother's Younger Brother.

4. What does Riis call his colored map of Manhattan?
(a) Better than a train schedule.
(b) A crazy quilt of races.
(c) A guide to the theaters.
(d) A colored chart of districts.

5. What worries Tateh as he observes The Girl?
(a) She has no color from staying inside so long.
(b) She slouches like a depressed person.
(c) She is maturing and has no mother to guide her.
(d) She doesn't seem to be growing.

6. What is the newspaperman, Jacob Riis, writing about at this time?
(a) The music in Harlem.
(b) The trial of the century.
(c) Better housing for the poor.
(d) Stopping the flow of emigrants into the country.

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

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

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

10. What do most of the 1mmigrants find as they settle in New York?
(a) They still have to struggle to survive.
(b) They have free housing and food.
(c) They find many good paying jobs.
(d) They cannot locate their relatives.

11. Who does Mother call after she and the maid clean up the baby?
(a) The Welfare Department.
(b) Grandfather.
(c) Her next door neighbor.
(d) A doctor and the police.

12. What does Perry do after the flag is set up?
(a) He dances a jig.
(b) He has sex with an Esquimo woman.
(c) He takes photos.
(d) He rolls in the snow.

13. What does Father see in his bathroom mirror after he returns?
(a) The gaunt, bearded face of a homeless man.
(b) How fat he had become eating Esquimo food.
(c) How much stronger he looked.
(d) How much young her looked.

14. What happened often when Freud was around Jung?
(a) He wanted to throw up.
(b) He had fainting fits.
(c) He laughed uproarously.
(d) He listened intently.

15. What does Father manufacture?
(a) Pianos and harps.
(b) Mason jars and Coke bottles.
(c) Flags, patriotic bunting and fireworks.
(d) Nuts and bolts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Seeing the man who has been following her, what does Evelyn think?

2. What does the author show between the characters of Evelyn and Tateh?

3. Why does The Girl like the strike?

4. What began to be heard in the ghettos?

5. What is Evelyn Nesbit doing before her husband's trial?

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