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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 27 and 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After his mother's death, what does Houdini set out to do?
(a) Sue the doctors who did not keep her alive.
(b) Find a true medium who can communicate with the dead.
(c) Learn all he can about reincarnation.
(d) Find a baby that was born at the exact minute she died.

3. What happens when Tateh is beaten by the police and the train The Girl is on starts to move?
(a) He grabs a gun from a militiaman and starts shooting.
(b) He runs and grabs onto the back guardrail of the train.
(c) He sits down and starts crying.
(d) He calls down a curse from heaven.

4. What happens when the American Woolen Company gives out envelopes with short pay?
(a) The workers go on strike.
(b) The worker all leave to head West.
(c) The welfare office is overrun.
(d) Tateh contemplates suicide.

5. Why does The Girl like the strike?
(a) It gets her out of the one room apartment.
(b) She gets to meet many people.
(c) She gets to wear her new coat.
(d) She likes the snow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the train headed?

2. What is the description of the man who led the attack on the fire station?

3. Most people think that it was the work of a group of armed men, but what does the newspaper suggest?

4. Why are Tateh and the girl at home that day?

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

(see the answer key)

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