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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Doctorow suggest Sigmund Freud's revenge on America was?
(a) Destroying sex in America forever.
(b) Having so many psychiatrists in America.
(c) Sending his European students to America.
(d) Turning Carl Jung loose on America.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does The Boy think happens to people, animals, or objects in a motion picture?
(a) They continually repeat themselves.
(b) They come alive after everyone leaves the theater.
(c) They show what is really inside of themselves.
(d) They leave parts of themselves behind in the shadows.

9. Why is Houdini brooding while walking the streets of New York?
(a) He is thinking about the possibility of his death.
(b) It is real world adventures that people remember and not his magic tricks.
(c) He cannot come up with any new tricks because he has done them all.
(d) He wants to become a pilot but no one will teach him.

10. Where does Evelyn go when she doesn't find Tateh and the girl one day?
(a) To a detective to look for them.
(b) Back to her house to cry.
(c) To the police to file a missing person's report.
(d) To their 2-room flat over a public bath.

11. Why are Tateh and the girl at home that day?
(a) They are hiding from Evelyn.
(b) Tateh is out of supplies and has no money to buy more.
(c) The girl is sick.
(d) Evelyn's husband has put out a contract on Tateh.

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

13. What does Father do with all the family watching?
(a) Passes out gifts he brought back from the Arctic.
(b) Reads pages from his journal.
(c) Shows them an Esquimo dance.
(d) Plays tunes on an ivory cared flute.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does The Boy see on the ice?

2. What does Riis call his colored map of Manhattan?

3. To where does Younger Brother ride the streetcar?

4. What was Freud's judgment about America?

5. What happens when the Young Man hides in Goldman's closet?

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