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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the Little Girl to stop working?
(a) She is forced to go to school.
(b) She is kidnapped by pimps.
(c) She falls and breaks her hand.
(d) She gets tuberculosis.

2. What do most of the 1mmigrants find as they settle in New York?
(a) They find many good paying jobs.
(b) They still have to struggle to survive.
(c) They have free housing and food.
(d) They cannot locate their relatives.

3. What is Little Boy wishing for?
(a) An exciting life like Harry Houdini's.
(b) A new bicycle.
(c) A new car for his family.
(d) To go with Father to the North Pole.

4. What does Riis call his colored map of Manhattan?
(a) A colored chart of districts.
(b) A guide to the theaters.
(c) A crazy quilt of races.
(d) Better than a train schedule.

5. What does Evelyn see that causes her to order the driver to stop the car?
(a) A lost puppy.
(b) A dirty-faced girl.
(c) An organ grinder with a monkey.
(d) A sale on shawls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of car is Evelyn being chauffeured in as she goes around in New York?

2. Why does Harry K. Shaw receive special privileges in jail?

3. Why is the girl tied by a rope to the old man's wrists?

4. What does Father think about when he sees the new immigrants?

5. Where are the immigrants ushered as they enter New York Harbor?

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