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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom is Father planning to travel to the North Pole?
(a) Charles Lindburg.
(b) David Livingstone.
(c) Ronald Amundsen.
(d) Admiral Robert Peary.

2. What do the Hebrew letters on storefronts look like to Evelyn?
(a) Graffiti.
(b) Tally marks.
(c) Scratches.
(d) Bones.

3. What is a theme established in the first two chapters?
(a) Isolationism.
(b) Patriotism.
(c) Immigartion.
(d) Adventure.

4. Is Perry able to locate the exact spot of the North Pole?
(a) Yes, because the house of Santa Claus is there.
(b) Yes, because of the red and white pole standing there.
(c) No, because the compass does not function there.
(d) No, but there is no doubt he was there.

5. What is the newspaperman, Jacob Riis, writing about at this time?
(a) Better housing for the poor.
(b) The trial of the century.
(c) Stopping the flow of emigrants into the country.
(d) The music in Harlem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Doctorow suggest Sigmund Freud's revenge on America was?

2. Who becomes Evelyn's lover?

3. What does Father think about when he sees the new immigrants?

4. Where does the story of RAGTIME begin?

5. What happens when a woman striker is shot?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Perry's attitude towards the Esquimo people?

2. What is the gossip about Evelyn's disappearances to visit The Girl?

3. What is Mother's concern about Younger Brother?

4. What is Father's condition when he returns form the Arctic?

5. How is Father sent off on his trip with the Perry expedition to the North Pole?

6. What crime is Harry K. Shaw accused of committing?

7. What does newspaperman Riis find when he goes to the docks to interview Stanford white about housing for the poor?

8. How do the second generation Irish feel about the new immigrants?

9. What is it that Evelyn Nesbit does not understand when she sees The Girl tied to her father?

10. What causes Harry K. Shaw to propose marriage to Evelyn Nesbit?

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