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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. In the late 1800s, what seemed to happen in one hundreds?
(a) Elections held; charity balls held; new newspapers started.
(b) Roads built; farms shut down; factories opened.
(c) Songs written; immigrant boats arrived; fires broke out.
(d) Negores lynched; miners burned alive; children mutilated.

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

3. What was a main reason for men losing their jobs about the turn of the century?
(a) Attempting to form unions.
(b) New immagrants working for less money.
(c) Catching tuberculosis.
(d) Companies going bankrupt.

4. What is Father's great guilt?
(a) That he had killed an auk.
(b) That he had lost his interest in business.
(c) That he had slept with an Esquimo woman.
(d) That he had not thought of his family while he was gone.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do most of the 1mmigrants find as they settle in New York?

2. Where does the story of RAGTIME begin?

3. How is it possible for them to travel cheaply?

4. What is Goldman's political stance?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How are Tateh and The Girl rescued from being separated?

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

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

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

8. What does The Boy think bronze statues are?

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

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

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