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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who gets the rebuilt Model-T?
(a) Willie conklin.
(b) Younger Brother.
(c) Emma Goldman.
(d) Father.

5. When the New York City papers get the story, what happens with Chief Conklin?
(a) He becomes hated as the perpetrator of the act of revenge.
(b) He has to go into hiding.
(c) He becomes a target for former abolutionists.
(d) He becomes a state-wide hero.

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

7. Where does Father and the family go to get away from the tension?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Boston.
(c) Atlantic City.
(d) New York City.

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

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

10. What happens to Coalhouse after he comes out of the museum with his hands raised?
(a) He gets away when the generators fail.
(b) He is taken to jail.
(c) He is executed in a volly of gunfire.
(d) He is attacked by Willie Conklin.

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

12. Who cares for the baby while Sarah lay dying in the hospital?
(a) Younger Brother moves into Sarah's room and cares for the baby.
(b) The Boy takes charge of the baby.
(c) Mother holds the baby constantly.
(d) Coalhouse comes and looks after the baby.

13. What event is a great disappointment to Morgan?
(a) His last birthday party when no one came.
(b) The opening of his 1,000th bank.
(c) The Harry Houdini show in New York.
(d) A dinner party of a dozen of the most powerful men in America.

14. How does the knowledge of Coalhouse Walker's activities eventually become known?
(a) One of the gang members drops out and goes to the police.
(b) A black lawyer gets information from one of Coalhouse's gang.
(c) Coalhouse writes everything down to be opened after his death.
(d) Younger Brother keeps a diary of every day with Coalhouse.

15. What are the ages of Coalhouse's followers?
(a) Men as old as sixty-five.
(b) Near Coalhouse's age.
(c) Eighteen to twenties.
(d) From sixteen to seventy-two.

Short Answer Questions

1. What new activity does Younger Brother take up?

2. Who becomes alarmed when a full military assault on the museum is suggested?

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

4. What kind of music does Coalhouse play?

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

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