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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) A dinner party of a dozen of the most powerful men in America.
(d) The Harry Houdini show in New York.

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

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

5. Who captures Mother's interest in Atlantic City?
(a) A child who comes to play with the baby.
(b) The family from Philadelphia.
(c) Baron Ashkenazy.
(d) The fat New Yorkers.

6. What is the first response to the police from the museum?
(a) A gun shot.
(b) Dead silence.
(c) A grenade thrown into the street.
(d) A mutilated Rembrandt.

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

8. Who comes to try and talk Coalhouse into surrendering?
(a) Mother.
(b) Emma Goldman.
(c) Willie Conklin.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

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

10. What happens one night that shakes the theater where Houdini had just performed?
(a) A German bomb attack on New York.
(b) A head-on train wreck.
(c) A boiler blew up in the theater.
(d) An explosion at the Emerald Isle Fire House.

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

12. Where is Sarah funeral held?
(a) In Harlem.
(b) In South Carolina.
(c) In New Rochelle.
(d) In the Bronx.

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

14. Who in the family understands and admires Coalhouse?
(a) Father.
(b) Younger Brother.
(c) Mother.
(d) The Boy.

15. In reality, who are the baron and his daughter?
(a) Movie actors from Edison's studio.
(b) Tateh and The Girl.
(c) A labor organizer and his niece.
(d) A Vaudeville father and daughter act.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lecture does Emma Goldman give Younger Brother?

2. What had Morgan once done for the U.S. government?

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

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

5. What worries Father after the baseball game?

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