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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Father go to the police?
(a) To ask for police protection for his family.
(b) To throw them off the trail of Coalhouse.
(c) To tell what he knows about Coalhouse Walker, Jr.
(d) To find out if the police know where Coalhouse is.

3. What returns to Father at the sea in Atlantic City?
(a) His weight begins to drop off.
(b) His hair begins to grow again on top of his head.
(c) His color returns to normal.
(d) Father's desire to make love to Mother.

4. What is the result when the newspapers succeed in getting the Model-T raised from the pond?
(a) The authorities were embarrassed because it showed the cruelty imposed on Coalhouse.
(b) No one was interested in coming to see it.
(c) The photos in the papers made Coalhouse even angrier.
(d) The new police chief announced it was the work of communists.

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

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

7. What worries Father after the baseball game?
(a) He thinks he sees Coalhouse in the crowd.
(b) A pickpocket has taken his wallet.
(c) He thinks he should not have left Mother alone.
(d) He is afraid they have missed the train.

8. Who is arrested after Coalhouse takes over the museum?
(a) Houdini.
(b) Father.
(c) Younger Brother.
(d) Emma Goldman.

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

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

11. What is the truth about Baron Ashkenazy?
(a) He is not the father of the girl.
(b) He is from noble German royalty.
(c) He fears American mothers.
(d) He is not a baron at all.

12. How had Father gotten his start in business?
(a) As an orphan, when he reached maturity he inherited a small amount of money.
(b) He was apprenticed to an Italian fireworks maker.
(c) His rich uncle left the business to him.
(d) He discovered a buried treasure.

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

14. What happens to Sarah as she tries to approach a man she thought was the President?
(a) She is turned away and not allowed to come close.
(b) Sheis stoned by the crowd.
(c) She is trampled by the crowd.
(d) She is hit in the chest with the butt of a rifle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What resemblance does Morgan see in Henry Ford?

2. Most people think that it was the work of a group of armed men, but what does the newspaper suggest?

3. What lecture does Emma Goldman give Younger Brother?

4. Who does Younger Brother attach himself to in Mexico?

5. At that time, who was at the top of the business pyramid in the USA?

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