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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 to Sarah in the hospital?
(a) Coalhouse breaks their engagement.
(b) Sarah losses her memory.
(c) She recovers.
(d) She dies.

2. After his mother's death, what does Houdini set out to do?
(a) Find a baby that was born at the exact minute she died.
(b) Sue the doctors who did not keep her alive.
(c) Find a true medium who can communicate with the dead.
(d) Learn all he can about reincarnation.

3. What is the first response to the police from the museum?
(a) A gun shot.
(b) A mutilated Rembrandt.
(c) A grenade thrown into the street.
(d) Dead silence.

4. Why is Houdini's mothers grave covered with a mound of small stones?
(a) They are there to discourage grave robbers.
(b) It is a new cenetary and no grass has been planted yert.
(c) Each stone has a message written on it.
(d) It is a Jewish custome to leave a samll stone at every visit to a gravesite.

5. What does Father propose to do for Coalhouse?
(a) Pay Coalhouse's employer to increase his salary.
(b) Buy Coalhouse a new car.
(c) Repair the car and bribe the Fire House to return it.
(d) Find Coalhouse a much better job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has The Boy taken to doing now that Sarah is communicative?

2. Who does Morgan want to meet?

3. Who shows up driving a new Model-T in front of The Boy's house?

4. How is the funeral described?

5. When the Negro man goes to the back door and asks for Sarah, what happens?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes Younger Brother to run out of the parlor one evening after dinner?

2. Why is Emma Goldman arrested after Coalhouse takes over the museum?

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

4. What does Sarah try to do to help Coalhouse?

5. That spring, what happens at the Matteawan State Prison Farm?

6. What becomes of Younger Brother?

7. What is keeping Father busy that summer?

8. Why does Father return alone to New York, leaving the family in Atlantic City.

9. What does Father decide to do to make up for the time he has not spent with The Boy?

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

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