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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. Who comes to try and talk Coalhouse into surrendering?
(a) Booker T. Washington.
(b) Willie Conklin.
(c) Emma Goldman.
(d) Mother.

2. Where do the cars come from that are used in the attacks?
(a) The boys steal them and return them undamaged.
(b) Emma Goldman arranges for them.
(c) Younger Brother rents them.
(d) Communists loan them to Coalhouse.

3. What is Father worried about after the murders?
(a) That Coalhouse may run to them for refuge.
(b) That the community will think they helped Coalhouse commit the crime.
(c) That they have Coalhouse's baby in their home.
(d) That someone will try to blow up their house.

4. When a reporter looks up Houdini to get his reaction to the escape, where is he found?
(a) On his way to Europe.
(b) At his mother's grave.
(c) Escaping from a trunk in the East River.
(d) In the theater.

5. Who arrives in a white town car and shoots a policeman and bombs Municipal Fire Station No. 2?
(a) Coalhouse and Younger Brother.
(b) Several black men holding shotguns.
(c) Coalhouse and some Italians.
(d) Masked men as undercover policemen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morgan bring back from Europe every year?

2. What are the ages of Coalhouse's followers?

3. What kind of music does Coalhouse play?

4. What is the first response to the police from the museum?

5. Who does Coalhouse plan to kidnap and exchange for Willie Conklin?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the police cannot find Coalhouse, what does Father do?

2. How does Mother's and Father's relationship change in Atlantic City?

3. Describe Morgan's buildings on Madison Avenue in Murray Hill.

4. What happens on Houdini's tour of Europe?

5. What becomes of Younger Brother?

6. What suddenly worries Sarah after the Fire House incident?

7. After Coalhouse arranges for his gang to escape, what happens to him?

8. What becomes fashionable because of Morgan's obsession with Egyptology?

9. What is keeping Father busy that summer?

10. What is Younger Brother's first act as a revolutionary and outlaw?

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