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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. Where does The Boy get some of Tateh's silhouettes?
(a) From a penny store in New Rochelle.
(b) At a flea market in New York.
(c) Where Younger Brother had thrown them in the trash.
(d) Evelyn Nesbit gives them to him.

2. What stories does Grandfather tell The Boy?
(a) Aesop's fables.
(b) Tales from Ovid.
(c) Tales from his youth.
(d) Tales of the Old West.

3. What does Tateh have that finally makes them money?
(a) The flip book he made for The Girl which he sells for $25.
(b) His new coat and tie.
(c) The Girl's new cloak and hat.
(d) His art supplies.

4. To where does Younger Brother ride the streetcar?
(a) To the end of the line.
(b) To the community college.
(c) To Woolworth's.
(d) To the Rialto Theater.

5. Where do the police find the mother of the baby?
(a) In the cellar of a house in the next block.
(b) In the railway station.
(c) Up in a tree near Mother's house.
(d) Inside Mother's rain barrel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Father present to commander Perry before he heads out to the North Pole?

2. What does Evelyn do with most of her money?

3. Is Perry able to locate the exact spot of the North Pole?

4. Why does The Girl like the strike?

5. What does Father notice as the expedition sails out of the harbor?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when Tateh is working in the Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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