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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 is good at repairing dog sleds.
(d) He has an uncanny sense of direction.

2. How does Tateh entertain The Girl at home?
(a) He teaches her old Yiddish songs.
(b) He tells her stories of the old country.
(c) He teaches her how to dance.
(d) He makes silhouette thumb books for her to look at.

3. Where do Tateh and The Girl go to warm up after spending the night in the train station?
(a) A synagogue.
(b) A small cafe.
(c) A movie theater.
(d) A Philadelphia Department Store.

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

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

6. 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 wants to become a pilot but no one will teach him.
(d) He is thinking about the possibility of his death.

7. What does Father notice as the expedition sails out of the harbor?
(a) How the temperature is already dropping.
(b) The U.S. Navy escort ship.
(c) A rag ship arraving with new immigrants.
(d) A fireworks display in thier honor.

8. The winter The Boy was skating on the pond, where were Tateh and The Girl?
(a) Newark, New Jersey.
(b) Bangor, Maine.
(c) New Haven, Connecticutt.
(d) Lawrence, Massachusetts.

9. What does Tateh have that finally makes them money?
(a) The Girl's new cloak and hat.
(b) His art supplies.
(c) His new coat and tie.
(d) The flip book he made for The Girl which he sells for $25.

10. What change is obvious in Younger Brother?
(a) He has taken to working twelve and fifteen hours a day.
(b) He has taken a job in New York City.
(c) He has dyed his hair black.
(d) He has had his photo in the newspapers with Evelyn Nesbit.

11. To where does Younger Brother ride the streetcar?
(a) To the Rialto Theater.
(b) To the end of the line.
(c) To the community college.
(d) To Woolworth's.

12. What is a theme established in the first two chapters?
(a) Patriotism.
(b) Immigartion.
(c) Adventure.
(d) Isolationism.

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

14. After a second trial, what sentence does Harry K. Shaw receive?
(a) Life in prison.
(b) Remanded to the Manhattan Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
(c) The electric chair.
(d) Seven years in prison.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Evelyn go when she doesn't find Tateh and the girl one day?

2. What worries Tateh as he observes The Girl?

3. What does Evelyn do with most of her money?

4. What do they do the day before the expedition heads out for the North Pole?

5. What does Father do with all the family watching?

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