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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. 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) They are there to discourage grave robbers.
(c) It is a Jewish custome to leave a samll stone at every visit to a gravesite.
(d) Each stone has a message written on it.

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

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

4. How does Morgan dress?
(a) Simply, like a laborer.
(b) Fashionably for his day.
(c) Extravagantly, like a prince.
(d) Expensive clothes slightly out of fashion.

5. How had Father gotten his start in business?
(a) His rich uncle left the business to him.
(b) He was apprenticed to an Italian fireworks maker.
(c) He discovered a buried treasure.
(d) As an orphan, when he reached maturity he inherited a small amount of money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Younger Brother and Father die?

2. Who does Coalhouse plan to kidnap and exchange for Willie Conklin?

3. What does Mother notice about the change in Sarah's face?

4. Why do the police pay little attention to burglaries at Father's fireworks factory?

5. What does Father propose to do for Coalhouse?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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