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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

5. What is Father worried about after the murders?
(a) That someone will try to blow up their house.
(b) That Coalhouse may run to them for refuge.
(c) That they have Coalhouse's baby in their home.
(d) That the community will think they helped Coalhouse commit the crime.

6. At that time, who was at the top of the business pyramid in the USA?
(a) Carnegie.
(b) Rockefeller.
(c) Astor.
(d) J. P. Morgan.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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 someone who mistook the station for a bank.
(c) It was the work of one crazed killer.
(d) It was an inside job.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Coalhouse accept Younger Brother's help?

2. Who wrote Morgan's favorite story, The Birthmark?

3. How do Father and Mother sometimes travel down the boardwalk in Atlantic City?

4. Who captures Mother's interest in Atlantic City?

5. Who in the family understands and admires Coalhouse?

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