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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 is the newspaperman, Jacob Riis, writing about at this time?
(a) Better housing for the poor.
(b) Stopping the flow of emigrants into the country.
(c) The trial of the century.
(d) The music in Harlem.

2. Why are Tateh and the girl at home that day?
(a) They are hiding from Evelyn.
(b) Tateh is out of supplies and has no money to buy more.
(c) Evelyn's husband has put out a contract on Tateh.
(d) The girl is sick.

3. What is Evelyn Nesbit doing before her husband's trial?
(a) Rehearsing what she will say on the stand.
(b) Having an affair with the doorman.
(c) Shopping for new clothes to wear to her husband's trial.
(d) Writing her memoirs.

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

5. What does Perry do after the flag is set up?
(a) He takes photos.
(b) He dances a jig.
(c) He has sex with an Esquimo woman.
(d) He rolls in the snow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Houdini meet at a private function thrown by Mr. Stuyvesant Fish?

2. What is Little Boy wishing for?

3. Why does Father not go to the Pole with Perry?

4. What do the Hebrew letters on storefronts look like to Evelyn?

5. What does Mother insist on doing with the baby and its mother?

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