Ragtime Test | Final Test - Easy

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Ragtime Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Father observe about the game of baseball as opposed to the way they played at Harvard twenty years before?
(a) The rules had changed quite a bit.
(b) At Harvard the team was made up of immigrants.
(c) It was crude rather than gentlemanly like at Harvard.
(d) The uniforms were more practical now.

4. What new activity does Younger Brother take up?
(a) Learning how to tap dance.
(b) Gambling on the horses.
(c) Writing poetry for the newspapers.
(d) Going to Broadway plays and waiting in the alley for the stars.

5. 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) He discovered a buried treasure.
(d) His rich uncle left the business to him.

6. What lecture does Emma Goldman give Younger Brother?
(a) That he should forget Evelyn and get on with his life.
(b) That he should organize the union in Father's business.
(c) That he should learn another trade and make some real money.
(d) That he should travel to the West Coast.

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

8. Why does Coalhouse accept Younger Brother's help?
(a) Younger Brother knows where Coalhouse's son is.
(b) Younger Brother has joined the Communist Party.
(c) Younger Brother has dyed his blong hair black.
(d) Younger Brother says he can make bombs.

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

10. Why is it a busy time of the year for Father's business?
(a) It is close to New Year's Eve.
(b) It is nearing the Fourth of July.
(c) It is nearly Valentine's Day.
(d) It is the start of football season.

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

12. Why do the police pay little attention to burglaries at Father's fireworks factory?
(a) They think the items were simplymisplaced.
(b) The sargeant who takes the report forgets to file it.
(c) They are too concentrated on locating Coalhouse.
(d) There is no sign of breaking and entering.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives in a white town car and shoots a policeman and bombs Municipal Fire Station No. 2?

2. How is the funeral described?

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

4. What does Coalhouse say that causes Sarah to cry and hold the baby?

5. Why is Houdini's mothers grave covered with a mound of small stones?

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