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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 happens with Tateh and his little girl after they left the Goldman lecture?
(a) Tateh decides they must leave the city where he had such bad luck.
(b) Tateh puts new locks on their door.
(c) They find a ship and return to Europe.
(d) They move into another tenement.

2. Where is the train headed?
(a) Omaha.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Cincinati.
(d) Boston.

3. What was Freud's judgment about America?
(a) He said it was a gigantic mistake.
(b) He said it had left eruope behind.
(c) He said it was ahead of its time.
(d) He said it was a poor copy of Europe.

4. What is a theme established in the first two chapters?
(a) Patriotism.
(b) Adventure.
(c) Immigartion.
(d) Isolationism.

5. Is Perry able to locate the exact spot of the North Pole?
(a) No, but there is no doubt he was there.
(b) No, because the compass does not function there.
(c) Yes, because of the red and white pole standing there.
(d) Yes, because the house of Santa Claus is there.

Short Answer Questions

1. To where does Younger Brother ride the streetcar?

2. Why does Harry K. Shaw receive special privileges in jail?

3. What does Father manufacture?

4. At the jail called The Tombs, what do the guards invent?

5. What type of labor was favored in the factories then?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does The Boy think bronze statues are?

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Evelyn lose The Girl?

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

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

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