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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What has The Boy taken to doing now that Sarah is communicative?
(a) Asking Sarah endless questions.
(b) Drawing pictures for Sarah.
(c) Playing with the baby.
(d) Reading to Sarah.

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

5. How is the funeral described?
(a) Small and intimate.
(b) Lavish.
(c) Pitiful.
(d) Bleak.

6. What does Father propose to do for Coalhouse?
(a) Find Coalhouse a much better job.
(b) Repair the car and bribe the Fire House to return it.
(c) Pay Coalhouse's employer to increase his salary.
(d) Buy Coalhouse a new car.

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

8. How does the knowledge of Coalhouse Walker's activities eventually become known?
(a) Younger Brother keeps a diary of every day with Coalhouse.
(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) A black lawyer gets information from one of Coalhouse's gang.

9. 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.

10. What happened to Ben Reitman in San Diego?
(a) He had performed in shakespeare plays.
(b) He had been beaten and thrown in the ocean.
(c) He had won his first boxing match.
(d) He had been tarred and feathered.

11. What does Sarah decide to do to help Coalhouse?
(a) Start a petition.
(b) Contact Emma Goldman.
(c) Petition the United States Government.
(d) Picket the Emerald Isle fire station.

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

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

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

15. 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 says he can make bombs.
(d) Younger Brother has dyed his blong hair black.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Most people think that it was the work of a group of armed men, but what does the newspaper suggest?

3. What is the result when the newspapers succeed in getting the Model-T raised from the pond?

4. Who shows up driving a new Model-T in front of The Boy's house?

5. Why does Father go to the police?

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