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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 is the truth about Baron Ashkenazy?
(a) He is not a baron at all.
(b) He is not the father of the girl.
(c) He fears American mothers.
(d) He is from noble German royalty.

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

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

4. On the milk train going back to New Rochelle, what does Younger Brother contemplate?
(a) Getting married.
(b) Suicide.
(c) A new poem.
(d) Buying a Model-T.

5. How does the knowledge of Coalhouse Walker's activities eventually become known?
(a) One of the gang members drops out and goes to the police.
(b) Younger Brother keeps a diary of every day with Coalhouse.
(c) A black lawyer gets information from one of Coalhouse's gang.
(d) Coalhouse writes everything down to be opened after his death.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a reporter looks up Houdini to get his reaction to the escape, where is he found?

2. How do Father and Mother sometimes travel down the boardwalk in Atlantic City?

3. Who leaves a message that he wants to meet with Coalhouse?

4. How is the funeral described?

5. Where do the cars come from that are used in the attacks?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is keeping Father busy that summer?

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

4. How have the fortunes of Tateh and The girl changed?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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