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

2. What causes the Little Girl to stop working?
(a) She gets tuberculosis.
(b) She falls and breaks her hand.
(c) She is forced to go to school.
(d) She is kidnapped by pimps.

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

4. To where does Younger Brother ride the streetcar?
(a) To Woolworth's.
(b) To the Rialto Theater.
(c) To the community college.
(d) To the end of the line.

5. Seeing the man who has been following her, what does Evelyn think?
(a) That he's a detective hired by her mother-in-law to follow her.
(b) That he is a deranged man stalking her.
(c) That he's a policeman assigned to protect her.
(d) That he is a fan who wants her autograph.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Father's great guilt?

2. What does Perry do after the flag is set up?

3. What worries Tateh as he observes The Girl?

4. Where do the police find the mother of the baby?

5. What does The Boy see on the ice?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why is Houdini thrown out of Bellevue Hospital?

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

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

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

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

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