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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of car is Evelyn being chauffeured in as she goes around in New York?
(a) A black Detroit Electric.
(b) A Ford Model A.
(c) A Packard Limousine.
(d) A REO.

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

4. From where does the North Pole expedition set off?
(a) Lake Erie.
(b) Boston Harbor.
(c) New York Harbor.
(d) Bangor, Maine.

5. Who is on the mind of Mother's Younger Brother?
(a) Clara Bow.
(b) Nora Desmond.
(c) Greta Garbo.
(d) Evelyn Nesbit.

6. What happens when a woman striker is shot?
(a) The strike leaders are arrested for complicity.
(b) Tateh gets elected leader.
(c) The militia is called away.
(d) The workers attack the police.

7. Who did Houdini meet at a private function thrown by Mr. Stuyvesant Fish?
(a) Theodore Dreiser.
(b) P. T. Barnum.
(c) Al Jolson.
(d) Tavinia Warren Thumb.

8. What is Father's great guilt?
(a) That he had lost his interest in business.
(b) That he had slept with an Esquimo woman.
(c) That he had not thought of his family while he was gone.
(d) That he had killed an auk.

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

10. Why does Harry K. Shaw receive special privileges in jail?
(a) Because he is a close friend of the mayor.
(b) Because his father bribes the jailers.
(c) Because of his and Everlyn's celebrity.
(d) Because he is the governor of New York.

11. What is Goldman's political stance?
(a) Anarchism.
(b) Republicanism.
(c) Abolutionism.
(d) Socialism.

12. What does the arrival of the immigrants symbolize?
(a) That the weather will turn bad.
(b) That a famine is headed for America.
(c) That there are changes coming for the country.
(d) That the world economy is failing.

13. which immigrants are sent back home?
(a) Those who are criminals.
(b) Those too old or ill.
(c) Thos who cannot read.
(d) Those from Africa.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who took up the dare to escape from The Tombs?

2. Who will be speaking at the meeting Evelyn goes to with Tateh and the girl?

3. What was a popular type of entertainment show in those days?

4. Why does Evelyn call the old man Tateh?

5. What happens when the American Woolen Company gives out envelopes with short pay?

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