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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are the ages of Coalhouse's followers?
2. Where does Younger Brother go?
3. What does Younger Brother tell Emilio Zapata?
4. What finally really captures Morgan's attention in the world?
5. When the New York City papers get the story, what happens with Chief Conklin?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Morgan's buildings on Madison Avenue in Murray Hill.
2. What does Morgan think about making automobiles available to the masses?
3. That spring, what happens at the Matteawan State Prison Farm?
4. What remarkable innovation in manufacturing took place about this time?
5. What is Sarah's funeral like?
6. When the police cannot find Coalhouse, what does Father do?
7. Why does J. P. Morgan want to meet with Henry Ford?
8. How have the fortunes of Tateh and The girl changed?
9. What does Sarah try to do to help Coalhouse?
10. How does Mother's and Father's relationship change in Atlantic City?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write about Harry Houdini's fixation on finding a way to communicate with his dead mother. The attachment of Houdini to his mother is a documented fact. He also spent the rest of his life looking for someone who could make contact with the dead. In the process he became an authority on fakes and charlatans who claimed special powers to channel the dead. In your paper, explain why you think Doctorow used Houdini as a major character in the book? Point out the societal changes that were happening at that time that Houdini symbolizes.
Essay Topic 2
Write your opinion of E. L. Doctorow's writing style. Include such things as his omitting quotation marks and writing in very short sentences. Cite specific passages in the novel that you think either did or did not convey (1) the feeling of the characters, (2) the imagery of the day, (3) the suspense of the plot, or any other concept you feel the novel addresses. How much does Doctorow's use of fictionalized real characters add to the interest of the novel?
Essay Topic 3
Write a paper on child labor. Express your opinion about child labor at the turn of the 19th-20th century and in places in the world today. Perhaps Charles Dickens is the most famous novelist to address the issue of child labor. Doctorow describes child labor in America in the 1890s and early 1900s in two brief passages. One has to do with child abductions and sexual abuse and the other has to do with the reason manufacturers liked child labor. Your paper should use those examples and discuss the harmful effects on children when they are do devalued.
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