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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 worries Tateh as he observes The Girl?
(a) She has no color from staying inside so long.
(b) She is maturing and has no mother to guide her.
(c) She slouches like a depressed person.
(d) She doesn't seem to be growing.

2. 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) Parts of Father's body keep on freezing each day.
(d) Perry and Father do not get along well.

3. What do Mother, The Boy, and Younger Brother do in the winter time?
(a) Skate on the New Rochelle pond.
(b) Stay inside by the fireplace.
(c) Clean sidewalks for sick people.
(d) Take long sleigh rides.

4. The winter The Boy was skating on the pond, where were Tateh and The Girl?
(a) Lawrence, Massachusetts.
(b) New Haven, Connecticutt.
(c) Newark, New Jersey.
(d) Bangor, Maine.

5. What famous person is in the auto accident in front of Father's house?
(a) Harry Houdini.
(b) J. P. Morgan.
(c) Evelyn Nesbit.
(d) Will Bill Cody.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Father see in his bathroom mirror after he returns?

2. What is Goldman's political stance?

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

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

5. What was Freud's judgment about America?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does The Boy think bronze statues are?

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

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

4. What does The Boy recover from the trash?

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

6. Why does socialite Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish bring Houdini and circus freaks to her house?

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

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

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

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

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