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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Morgan's favorite story, The Birthmark?
(a) Washington Irving.
(b) Theodore Dreiser.
(c) Edgar Allen Poe.
(d) Nathaniel Hawthorne.

2. What happened to Ben Reitman in San Diego?
(a) He had been beaten and thrown in the ocean.
(b) He had won his first boxing match.
(c) He had performed in shakespeare plays.
(d) He had been tarred and feathered.

3. Who in the family understands and admires Coalhouse?
(a) Mother.
(b) The Boy.
(c) Younger Brother.
(d) Father.

4. What is Father's relationship with Mother after he returns from the Arctic?
(a) Father thinks she does not measure up to the Esquimo woman.
(b) They go back to being like newly weds.
(c) They no longer share a bedroom.
(d) They slip into an undemanding companionship.

5. What kind of music does Coalhouse play?
(a) Ragtime.
(b) Classical.
(c) Modern jazz.
(d) Minstrel show tunes.

6. When a reporter looks up Houdini to get his reaction to the escape, where is he found?
(a) At his mother's grave.
(b) Escaping from a trunk in the East River.
(c) On his way to Europe.
(d) In the theater.

7. What finally really captures Morgan's attention in the world?
(a) Egyptology.
(b) The philosopher's stone.
(c) The Holy Lands.
(d) Renaissance art and music.

8. What had Morgan once done for the U.S. government?
(a) Arranged a loan that kept it out of bankruptcy.
(b) Served as Secretary of the Treasury.
(c) Imported gold for the national treasury.
(d) Subsidized the military.

9. What happens at the Emerald Isle Fire Station?
(a) Coalhouse and Sarah get married.
(b) Father provides the bunting for a barbecue.
(c) Coalhouse is not allowed to pass and his car is vandalized.
(d) Young brother goes to apply for a job.

10. At that time, who was at the top of the business pyramid in the USA?
(a) Rockefeller.
(b) J. P. Morgan.
(c) Carnegie.
(d) Astor.

11. What does Coalhouse say that causes Sarah to cry and hold the baby?
(a) That he cannot marry her until his car is returned in new condition.
(b) That he will only marry her after he has killed the fire chief.
(c) That he will have to go away to make money for the wedding.
(d) That the wedding if off because he has no car now.

12. Where does Father and the family go to get away from the tension?
(a) New York City.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Boston.
(d) Atlantic City.

13. What became the decorating theme of that day after Morgan talked to Henry Ford?
(a) Pastoral mural wallpaper.
(b) Dollar signs and the Ford logo.
(c) Images of ancient Egypt.
(d) Wallpaper with Ford cars going up and down.

14. Where do the cars come from that are used in the attacks?
(a) The boys steal them and return them undamaged.
(b) Communists loan them to Coalhouse.
(c) Younger Brother rents them.
(d) Emma Goldman arranges for them.

15. Who arrives in a white town car and shoots a policeman and bombs Municipal Fire Station No. 2?
(a) Masked men as undercover policemen.
(b) Coalhouse and Younger Brother.
(c) Several black men holding shotguns.
(d) Coalhouse and some Italians.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the knowledge of Coalhouse Walker's activities eventually become known?

2. What do the police discover as they go through the wreckage of the demolished building?

3. What does Coalhouse Walker, Jr., do to identify himself.

4. What happens to Coalhouse after he comes out of the museum with his hands raised?

5. How had Father gotten his start in business?

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