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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 lecture does Emma Goldman give Younger Brother?
(a) That he should forget Evelyn and get on with his life.
(b) That he should organize the union in Father's business.
(c) That he should learn another trade and make some real money.
(d) That he should travel to the West Coast.

2. What has The Boy taken to doing now that Sarah is communicative?
(a) Asking Sarah endless questions.
(b) Reading to Sarah.
(c) Playing with the baby.
(d) Drawing pictures for Sarah.

3. What had actually exploded that night?
(a) The boiler of the overturned fire wagon.
(b) A small canon.
(c) A homemade bomb.
(d) fireworks at Father's plant.

4. What had Morgan once done for the U.S. government?
(a) Imported gold for the national treasury.
(b) Served as Secretary of the Treasury.
(c) Subsidized the military.
(d) Arranged a loan that kept it out of bankruptcy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Father and the family go to get away from the tension?

2. How is the funeral described?

3. Why does Father go to the police?

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

5. What is the result when the newspapers succeed in getting the Model-T raised from the pond?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the beginning of the trouble with Coalhouse Walker?

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

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

5. What brings Younger Brother back to life after his breakup with Evelyn?

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

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

8. Why does J. P. Morgan want to meet with Henry Ford?

9. What becomes of Younger Brother?

10. What causes the theater to shake where Houdini is performing?

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