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

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

3. What happens when Tateh is beaten by the police and the train The Girl is on starts to move?
(a) He sits down and starts crying.
(b) He calls down a curse from heaven.
(c) He runs and grabs onto the back guardrail of the train.
(d) He grabs a gun from a militiaman and starts shooting.

4. Who does Mother call after she and the maid clean up the baby?
(a) Her next door neighbor.
(b) The Welfare Department.
(c) Grandfather.
(d) A doctor and the police.

5. What do Mameh, Tateh, and the Little Girl do to make a living?
(a) Take in boarders.
(b) Sing and dance on the streets.
(c) Sell on the streets and sew patches by hand.
(d) Make deliveries on bicycles.

Short Answer Questions

1. which immigrants are sent back home?

2. Why is Houdini brooding while walking the streets of New York?

3. What does Evelyn hope for in her husband's trial?

4. Who will be speaking at the meeting Evelyn goes to with Tateh and the girl?

5. From where does the North Pole expedition set off?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is Houdini thrown out of Bellevue Hospital?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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