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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Mameh, Tateh, and the Little Girl do to make a living?
(a) Take in boarders.
(b) Sell on the streets and sew patches by hand.
(c) Sing and dance on the streets.
(d) Make deliveries on bicycles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What has Mother accomplished during Father's absence?
(a) She has opened a music school in the parlor.
(b) She has cut her hair and started wearing the latest fashions.
(c) She has become a social worker.
(d) She has taken on executive responsibility for the business.

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

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

11. What does Father find on Mother's bedside table?
(a) A love note from the grocer.
(b) A bottle of brandy.
(c) A shocking Victorian novel.
(d) A pamphlet written by Emma Goldman.

12. Is Perry able to locate the exact spot of the North Pole?
(a) No, but there is no doubt he was there.
(b) No, because the compass does not function there.
(c) Yes, because of the red and white pole standing there.
(d) Yes, because the house of Santa Claus is there.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Doctorow suggest Sigmund Freud's revenge on America was?

3. What does Father manufacture?

4. What does Mother find buried in her garden?

5. What does Evelyn see that causes her to order the driver to stop the car?

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