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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. What plea does Shaw's mother want him to make in court but he flatly refuses?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Self defense.
(c) No lo contendre.
(d) Amnesia.

5. What does Evelyn see that causes her to order the driver to stop the car?
(a) A sale on shawls.
(b) A dirty-faced girl.
(c) An organ grinder with a monkey.
(d) A lost puppy.

6. 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 is like a stranger to Father.
(d) He has lost his interest in science.

7. Where does The Boy get some of Tateh's silhouettes?
(a) From a penny store in New Rochelle.
(b) Evelyn Nesbit gives them to him.
(c) Where Younger Brother had thrown them in the trash.
(d) At a flea market in New York.

8. What do they do the day before the expedition heads out for the North Pole?
(a) Climb the bird cliffs to catch birds and collect eggs.
(b) Spend a day in prayer and fasting.
(c) Choose Esquimo women to drive their dog sleds.
(d) Tear down the igloos they had built on deck.

9. Where do the police find the mother of the baby?
(a) In the railway station.
(b) Inside Mother's rain barrel.
(c) In the cellar of a house in the next block.
(d) Up in a tree near Mother's house.

10. What type of labor was favored in the factories then?
(a) Black labor.
(b) Irish labor.
(c) Child labor.
(d) Female labor.

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

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

13. Why does Evelyn call the old man Tateh?
(a) Because he cannot pronounce his Hebrew name.
(b) Because she met him on Tateh Street.
(c) Because his clothes looked tattered.
(d) Because he would not tell her his real name.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Mother, The Boy, and Younger Brother do in the winter time?

2. Why does Harry K. Shaw receive special privileges in jail?

3. What was a main reason for men losing their jobs about the turn of the century?

4. What happens with Tateh and his little girl after they left the Goldman lecture?

5. From where does the North Pole expedition set off?

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