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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Father and Mother sometimes travel down the boardwalk in Atlantic City?
(a) They go on rollerskates.
(b) They ride in a horse drawn hansom.
(c) They are pushed in wheeled, wicker chairs.
(d) They go on a trolley.

2. What had actually exploded that night?
(a) A homemade bomb.
(b) fireworks at Father's plant.
(c) A small canon.
(d) The boiler of the overturned fire wagon.

3. What does Coalhouse Walker, Jr., do to identify himself.
(a) He spreads a rumor that he is the one the police are looking for.
(b) He writes letter to the mayor saying that Father's fireworks factory will be next.
(c) He leaves letters at newspapers that he wants the Fire Chief turned over to him and his car returned in new condition.
(d) He writes messaged on walls all over town that he wants to kill the Fire Chief.

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

5. What happens one night that shakes the theater where Houdini had just performed?
(a) An explosion at the Emerald Isle Fire House.
(b) A head-on train wreck.
(c) A German bomb attack on New York.
(d) A boiler blew up in the theater.

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

7. What does Morgan bring back from Europe every year?
(a) Art, rare manuscripts, jades, bronzes, tapestries, and crystal.
(b) Orphans he adopted every year.
(c) Boatloads of gold and silver.
(d) Skilled workers to work on his projects.

8. Who does Younger Brother attach himself to in Mexico?
(a) Simon Bolivar.
(b) Francisco Villa.
(c) Maximilliano.
(d) Santa Ana.

9. What newsworthy event happens at Matteawan State Prison Farm in the spring?
(a) Harry K. Thaw is executed.
(b) Harry K. Thaw is given a new trial.
(c) Harry K. Thaw escapes.
(d) Harry K. thaw is released.

10. Who becomes alarmed when a full military assault on the museum is suggested?
(a) The Bovernor of New York.
(b) J. P. Morgan.
(c) The District Attorney.
(d) A museum curator.

11. Where do Younger Brother and Father die?
(a) Younger Brother in Mexico and Father on the Lusitania.
(b) Younger Brother in Bellview and Father in the Hindenberg.
(c) Younger Brother in a train wreck and Father in the hospital.
(d) Younger Brother in Texas and Father in his bed.

12. 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.

13. Who were most of the mourners at Sarah's funeral?
(a) Musician friends of Coalhouse.
(b) New York policemen.
(c) Hired mourners.
(d) Father, Mother, Younger Brother, and The Boy.

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

15. Who shows up driving a new Model-T in front of The Boy's house?
(a) Emma Goldman looking for Mother.
(b) Harry Houdini looking for Father.
(c) A Negro man looking for Sarah.
(d) Evelyn Nesbit looking for Younger Brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What became the decorating theme of that day after Morgan talked to Henry Ford?

2. Why does he insist on living a grand style in Europe?

3. What worries Father after the baseball game?

4. What resemblance does Morgan see in Henry Ford?

5. What does the family learn about Coalhouse Walker, Jr.?

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