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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. After a second trial, what sentence does Harry K. Shaw receive?
(a) Remanded to the Manhattan Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
(b) Seven years in prison.
(c) Life in prison.
(d) The electric chair.

2. Who does Mother call after she and the maid clean up the baby?
(a) A doctor and the police.
(b) Her next door neighbor.
(c) Grandfather.
(d) The Welfare Department.

3. What do Mameh, Tateh, and the Little Girl do to make a living?
(a) Sing and dance on the streets.
(b) Take in boarders.
(c) Sell on the streets and sew patches by hand.
(d) Make deliveries on bicycles.

4. What does Evelyn do with most of her money?
(a) Hides it under her mattress.
(b) Buys all new clothes.
(c) Donates it anonymously to socialist causes.
(d) Gives it to Tateh and the Girl.

5. What has Mother accomplished during Father's absence?
(a) She has cut her hair and started wearing the latest fashions.
(b) She has become a social worker.
(c) She has opened a music school in the parlor.
(d) She has taken on executive responsibility for the business.

Short Answer Questions

1. What began to be heard in the ghettos?

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

3. Why does The Girl like the strike?

4. Where does the story of RAGTIME begin?

5. What stories does Grandfather tell The Boy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Younger Brother do for a political rally in Rye, New York?

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

3. What does the Franklin Novelty Company do with Tateh's books?

4. Who are the famous psychologists who visit New York at this time and what is their reaction?

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

6. What sight as they sail out of New York Harbor depresses Father?

7. What becomes the fashion among the rich in turn of the century America?

8. What does The Boy recover from the trash?

9. What are the lead workers doing as Perry comes leisurely behind?

10. What does Tateh notice about The Girl on their train trip.

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