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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 began to be heard in the ghettos?
(a) The rattle of streetcars.
(b) The calls of ice venders.
(c) The people speaking English.
(d) The sounds of piano lessons.

2. With whom is Father planning to travel to the North Pole?
(a) Ronald Amundsen.
(b) Admiral Robert Peary.
(c) David Livingstone.
(d) Charles Lindburg.

3. 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.

4. What do they do the day before the expedition heads out for the North Pole?
(a) Choose Esquimo women to drive their dog sleds.
(b) Spend a day in prayer and fasting.
(c) Tear down the igloos they had built on deck.
(d) Climb the bird cliffs to catch birds and collect eggs.

5. On board the Roosevelt, how does Admiral Perry live?
(a) He is the most comfortable with a player piano in his cabin.
(b) He shares a cabin with Father and Matthew Henson.
(c) He lives as ruggedly as the Esquimos.
(d) He takes an Esquimo woman for a bed warmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Tateh is beaten by the police and the train The Girl is on starts to move?

2. What does Houdini do in Germany?

3. How does Tateh entertain The Girl at home?

4. What does Mother insist on doing with the baby and its mother?

5. What plea does Shaw's mother want him to make in court but he flatly refuses?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does The Boy think bronze statues are?

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

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

4. What are Tateh's plans for him and The Girl as they leave New York?

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

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

7. What is the nature of Evelyn's testimony in Harry's trial?

8. What does Tateh notice about The Girl on their train trip.

9. What becomes the fashion among the rich in turn of the century America?

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

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