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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Father propose to do for Coalhouse?
(a) Pay Coalhouse's employer to increase his salary.
(b) Buy Coalhouse a new car.
(c) Repair the car and bribe the Fire House to return it.
(d) Find Coalhouse a much better job.

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

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

4. What do the police discover as they go through the wreckage of the demolished building?
(a) A fireman had thrown a cigarette into a gas can.
(b) The fire started when a cook stove blew up.
(c) Two of the victims had been shot; it was a case of murder.
(d) The building exploded because of an earthquake.

5. What is the description of the man who led the attack on the fire station?
(a) A short man with coal dust on his face.
(b) An unidentified Negro male.
(c) A stout man wearing a bandana mask.
(d) A man who looked a lot like the Fire Chief.

6. What has The Boy taken to doing now that Sarah is communicative?
(a) Reading to Sarah.
(b) Asking Sarah endless questions.
(c) Playing with the baby.
(d) Drawing pictures for Sarah.

7. What happens to Sarah in the hospital?
(a) She dies.
(b) Sarah losses her memory.
(c) She recovers.
(d) Coalhouse breaks their engagement.

8. Why does Baron Ashkenazy say his daughter is sad and seldom speaks?
(a) She had lost her kitten.
(b) She suffered from migraines.
(c) She was missing Europe.
(d) Her mother had died some years ago.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Who leaves a message that he wants to meet with Coalhouse?
(a) Younger Brother.
(b) The new police chief.
(c) Tateh.
(d) Fire Chief Conklin.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where do Younger Brother and Father die?

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

5. What resemblance does Morgan see in Henry Ford?

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