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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 calls down a curse from heaven.
(b) He grabs a gun from a militiaman and starts shooting.
(c) He runs and grabs onto the back guardrail of the train.
(d) He sits down and starts crying.

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

3. Why is the girl tied by a rope to the old man's wrists?
(a) Because the girl was insane.
(b) Because girls and women were often kidnapped.
(c) Because the old man was bline.
(d) Because the girl would dance when the rope was pulled.

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

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

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

7. What began to be heard in the ghettos?
(a) The sounds of piano lessons.
(b) The calls of ice venders.
(c) The rattle of streetcars.
(d) The people speaking English.

8. What was the physical condition of the rich prior to William Howard Taft becoming President?
(a) Healthy and muscular.
(b) Sickly and pale.
(c) Generally obese.
(d) Wafer thin.

9. What stories does Grandfather tell The Boy?
(a) Tales from his youth.
(b) Tales of the Old West.
(c) Tales from Ovid.
(d) Aesop's fables.

10. What happens when the American Woolen Company gives out envelopes with short pay?
(a) The workers go on strike.
(b) Tateh contemplates suicide.
(c) The welfare office is overrun.
(d) The worker all leave to head West.

11. What does Houdini do in Germany?
(a) Walk on the wings of a flying plane.
(b) Hang from a flying plane by his teeth.
(c) Learn to pilot a Voisin.
(d) Learn to play the violin.

12. Who took up the dare to escape from The Tombs?
(a) Jesse James.
(b) P. T. Barnum.
(c) John Dillinger.
(d) Harry Houdini.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Is Perry able to locate the exact spot of the North Pole?

2. Seeing the man who has been following her, what does Evelyn think?

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

4. What do most of the 1mmigrants find as they settle in New York?

5. What does Father find on Mother's bedside table?

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