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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 Evelyn go when she doesn't find Tateh and the girl one day?
(a) To a detective to look for them.
(b) Back to her house to cry.
(c) To the police to file a missing person's report.
(d) To their 2-room flat over a public bath.

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

3. What do most of the 1mmigrants find as they settle in New York?
(a) They cannot locate their relatives.
(b) They have free housing and food.
(c) They still have to struggle to survive.
(d) They find many good paying jobs.

4. What does Father think about when he sees the new immigrants?
(a) That there are too many immigrants coming into the USA.
(b) That there will be new competition for his business.
(c) That there will be more crime in New York.
(d) That they all buy American flags.

5. When Freud visited New York and saw the early motion pictures, what was his thought?
(a) Americans have too much leisure time.
(b) At least they are silent.
(c) These could be used on my patients.
(d) They hurt my eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they do the day before the expedition heads out for the North Pole?

2. What kind of car is Evelyn being chauffeured in as she goes around in New York?

3. Why does The Girl like the strike?

4. What was Freud's judgment about America?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Explain how Harry K. Shaw gets to see Harry Houdini.

4. What does The Boy recover from the trash?

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

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

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

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

9. Why is Houdini thrown out of Bellevue Hospital?

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

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