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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Tateh is beaten by the police and the train The Girl is on starts to move?
(a) He runs and grabs onto the back guardrail of the train.
(b) He calls down a curse from heaven.
(c) He sits down and starts crying.
(d) He grabs a gun from a militiaman and starts shooting.

2. What does Evelyn receive in her divorce settlement?
(a) $25,000.
(b) Nothing because of her affair with Younger Brother.
(c) $1,000,000.
(d) One dollar.

3. What happens when the Young Man hides in Goldman's closet?
(a) He faints when he sees Evelyn in the nude.
(b) He sees Evelyn naked and loses control.
(c) He covers his eyes when Godlman gives Evelyn a massage.
(d) He gets caught when Goldman hangs up her coat.

4. What is Little Boy wishing for?
(a) A new car for his family.
(b) To go with Father to the North Pole.
(c) A new bicycle.
(d) An exciting life like Harry Houdini's.

5. What does Evelyn hope for in her husband's trial?
(a) That he will be found guilty and locked up for life.
(b) That he will commit suicide.
(c) That she won't have to testify.
(d) That her testimony will free him.

6. Why does Father not go to the Pole with Perry?
(a) Perry and Father do not get along well.
(b) Father decides the whole thing is silly.
(c) Parts of Father's body keep on freezing each day.
(d) Father prefers to remain with the Esquimos.

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

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

9. What is Matthew Henson's special knowledge that make him invaluable to Perry?
(a) He is good at repairing dog sleds.
(b) He can perform surgery.
(c) He has an uncanny sense of direction.
(d) He is an expert chef.

10. Who becomes Evelyn's lover?
(a) Tateh.
(b) Younger Brother.
(c) Houdini.
(d) Goldman.

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

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

13. What causes the Little Girl to stop working?
(a) She is forced to go to school.
(b) She is kidnapped by pimps.
(c) She gets tuberculosis.
(d) She falls and breaks her hand.

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

15. What happens with Tateh and his little girl after they left the Goldman lecture?
(a) They move into another tenement.
(b) Tateh puts new locks on their door.
(c) Tateh decides they must leave the city where he had such bad luck.
(d) They find a ship and return to Europe.

Short Answer Questions

1. After a second trial, what sentence does Harry K. Shaw receive?

2. What does Father notice as the expedition sails out of the harbor?

3. What does Father present to commander Perry before he heads out to the North Pole?

4. What has Mother accomplished during Father's absence?

5. which immigrants are sent back home?

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