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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 one night that shakes the theater where Houdini had just performed?
(a) An explosion at the Emerald Isle Fire House.
(b) A head-on train wreck.
(c) A boiler blew up in the theater.
(d) A German bomb attack on New York.

2. Who captures Mother's interest in Atlantic City?
(a) Baron Ashkenazy.
(b) The fat New Yorkers.
(c) A child who comes to play with the baby.
(d) The family from Philadelphia.

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

4. What returns to Father at the sea in Atlantic City?
(a) Father's desire to make love to Mother.
(b) His hair begins to grow again on top of his head.
(c) His color returns to normal.
(d) His weight begins to drop off.

5. Who does Coalhouse plan to kidnap and exchange for Willie Conklin?
(a) Pierpont Morgan.
(b) Harry Houdini.
(c) Henry Ford.
(d) Evelyn Nesbit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What became the decorating theme of that day after Morgan talked to Henry Ford?

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

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

4. What is Father's relationship with Mother after he returns from the Arctic?

5. What physical abnormality does Pierpont Morgan have?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What remarkable innovation in manufacturing took place about this time?

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

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

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

9. What does Morgan think about making automobiles available to the masses?

10. How do the police learn about the history of Coalhouse Walker, Jr.?

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