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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What innovation of Henry Ford's was about to revolutionize American manufacturing?
(a) Better conditions for the factory workers.
(b) The assembly line production of automobiles.
(c) Spray painting by machine.
(d) The invention of the diesel truck.

2. Where do Father and The Boy go in spite of the tension surrounding Coalhouse's being at large?
(a) On a drive through Harlem.
(b) A Giants baseball game.
(c) To see the Statue of Liberty.
(d) To Coney Island.

3. Why do Coalhouse and his boys end up in the marble museum?
(a) The Morgan house was heavily guarded.
(b) The boys scouted out the wrong building.
(c) The boys could not find Morgan's house.
(d) The museum had more room.

4. What does the family learn about Coalhouse Walker, Jr.?
(a) That he is an opera singer.
(b) That he is not the father of Sarah's baby.
(c) That he is an accomplished pianist.
(d) That he has connections to the mob.

5. Where does Harry K. Thaw go after his escape?
(a) Europe.
(b) Canada.
(c) To New Rochelle.
(d) To Evelyn's apartment.

6. On the milk train going back to New Rochelle, what does Younger Brother contemplate?
(a) Buying a Model-T.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Getting married.
(d) A new poem.

7. Why is Houdini's mothers grave covered with a mound of small stones?
(a) Each stone has a message written on it.
(b) It is a Jewish custome to leave a samll stone at every visit to a gravesite.
(c) It is a new cenetary and no grass has been planted yert.
(d) They are there to discourage grave robbers.

8. What is the first response to the police from the museum?
(a) A mutilated Rembrandt.
(b) A gun shot.
(c) Dead silence.
(d) A grenade thrown into the street.

9. Most people think that it was the work of a group of armed men, but what does the newspaper suggest?
(a) It was the Fire Chief.
(b) It was the work of one crazed killer.
(c) It was someone who mistook the station for a bank.
(d) It was an inside job.

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

11. What resemblance does Morgan see in Henry Ford?
(a) A resemblance to Napoleon Bonapart.
(b) A resemblance to Thomas Jefferson.
(c) A resemblance of Sethi I, Pharoah of Egypt.
(d) A resemblance to a golden eagle.

12. After his mother's death, what does Houdini set out to do?
(a) Find a baby that was born at the exact minute she died.
(b) Learn all he can about reincarnation.
(c) Sue the doctors who did not keep her alive.
(d) Find a true medium who can communicate with the dead.

13. What does Mother notice about the change in Sarah's face?
(a) She is awed by her beauty.
(b) She notices Sarah has broken out in a rash.
(c) She pities her because she is so plain.
(d) She thinks Sarah's face was getting darker.

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

15. What physical abnormality does Pierpont Morgan have?
(a) A large, disfigured red nose.
(b) Ears that stick straight out.
(c) Crossed eyes.
(d) A profound limp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Sarah as she tries to approach a man she thought was the President?

2. What happens to Sarah in the hospital?

3. What does Younger Brother tell Emilio Zapata?

4. Who cares for the baby while Sarah lay dying in the hospital?

5. How does Morgan dress?

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