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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 leaves a message that he wants to meet with Coalhouse?
(a) Younger Brother.
(b) Tateh.
(c) The new police chief.
(d) Fire Chief Conklin.

2. What does Father observe about the game of baseball as opposed to the way they played at Harvard twenty years before?
(a) The rules had changed quite a bit.
(b) It was crude rather than gentlemanly like at Harvard.
(c) At Harvard the team was made up of immigrants.
(d) The uniforms were more practical now.

3. What is the description of the man who led the attack on the fire station?
(a) A stout man wearing a bandana mask.
(b) A man who looked a lot like the Fire Chief.
(c) A short man with coal dust on his face.
(d) An unidentified Negro male.

4. Who gets the rebuilt Model-T?
(a) Younger Brother.
(b) Father.
(c) Willie conklin.
(d) Emma Goldman.

5. What does Mother notice about the change in Sarah's face?
(a) She thinks Sarah's face was getting darker.
(b) She notices Sarah has broken out in a rash.
(c) She pities her because she is so plain.
(d) She is awed by her beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. How had Father gotten his start in business?

2. Who arrives in a white town car and shoots a policeman and bombs Municipal Fire Station No. 2?

3. Who in the family understands and admires Coalhouse?

4. What new activity does Younger Brother take up?

5. What happens to Sarah in the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is keeping Father busy that summer?

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

9. What is Sarah's funeral like?

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

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