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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. What does Doctorow suggest Sigmund Freud's revenge on America was?
(a) Destroying sex in America forever.
(b) Turning Carl Jung loose on America.
(c) Having so many psychiatrists in America.
(d) Sending his European students to America.

2. What causes the Little Girl to stop working?
(a) She falls and breaks her hand.
(b) She gets tuberculosis.
(c) She is kidnapped by pimps.
(d) She is forced to go to school.

3. What does Riis call his colored map of Manhattan?
(a) Better than a train schedule.
(b) A colored chart of districts.
(c) A crazy quilt of races.
(d) A guide to the theaters.

4. Why does Father not go to the Pole with Perry?
(a) Father prefers to remain with the Esquimos.
(b) Father decides the whole thing is silly.
(c) Perry and Father do not get along well.
(d) Parts of Father's body keep on freezing each day.

5. What does Father manufacture?
(a) Nuts and bolts.
(b) Pianos and harps.
(c) Mason jars and Coke bottles.
(d) Flags, patriotic bunting and fireworks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Father do with all the family watching?

2. Why does Harry K. Shaw receive special privileges in jail?

3. The winter The Boy was skating on the pond, where were Tateh and The Girl?

4. What does Father find on Mother's bedside table?

5. Where do the police find the mother of the baby?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does The Boy think bronze statues are?

3. What does Evelyn see when she goes with Tateh to a socialist meeting?

4. What is Evelyn doing with Younger Brother after Tateh and The girl leave?

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

6. What infatuation comes over Mother's Younger brother?

7. What idea does Tateh have that makes them money.

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

9. What does The boy see Mother do in the back garden?

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

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