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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Younger Brother and Father die?
(a) Younger Brother in Bellview and Father in the Hindenberg.
(b) Younger Brother in Texas and Father in his bed.
(c) Younger Brother in Mexico and Father on the Lusitania.
(d) Younger Brother in a train wreck and Father in the hospital.

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

3. Why does Father go to the police?
(a) To find out if the police know where Coalhouse is.
(b) To ask for police protection for his family.
(c) To tell what he knows about Coalhouse Walker, Jr.
(d) To throw them off the trail of Coalhouse.

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

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

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

7. Where does Younger Brother go?
(a) Washington state.
(b) Canada.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Alaska.

8. As the procession crosses into Brooklyn, what is seen settling on the rails of the Brooklyn Bridge?
(a) Gulls.
(b) Bluebirds.
(c) Sparrows.
(d) Small children.

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

10. Why does he insist on living a grand style in Europe?
(a) For the sake of the image of the country.
(b) To rub his affluence in other people's noses.
(c) To make sure he is on top in business.
(d) To be able to turn down invitations from kings.

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

12. What is the result when the newspapers succeed in getting the Model-T raised from the pond?
(a) The new police chief announced it was the work of communists.
(b) The photos in the papers made Coalhouse even angrier.
(c) The authorities were embarrassed because it showed the cruelty imposed on Coalhouse.
(d) No one was interested in coming to see it.

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 new cenetary and no grass has been planted yert.
(d) It is a Jewish custome to leave a samll stone at every visit to a gravesite.

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

15. 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) On a drive through Harlem.
(c) A Giants baseball game.
(d) To Coney Island.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Morgan want to meet?

2. What are the ages of Coalhouse's followers?

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

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

5. After his mother's death, what does Houdini set out to do?

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