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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 32, 33 and 34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is it possible for them to travel cheaply?
(a) They slip into empty cattle cars and hide from the watchmen.
(b) They get a discount because of the girl.
(c) They can change lines at each rail terminus and keep going.
(d) They stop in each town and Tateh does his silhouettes.

2. With whom is Father planning to travel to the North Pole?
(a) David Livingstone.
(b) Ronald Amundsen.
(c) Admiral Robert Peary.
(d) Charles Lindburg.

3. What was a popular type of entertainment show in those days?
(a) Sing alongs.
(b) Minstrels in black face.
(c) Classic concerts.
(d) Color motion pictures.

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

5. What has The Boy taken to doing now that Sarah is communicative?
(a) Drawing pictures for Sarah.
(b) Asking Sarah endless questions.
(c) Reading to Sarah.
(d) Playing with the baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Coalhouse Walker, Jr., do to identify himself.

2. What is Matthew Henson's special knowledge that make him invaluable to Perry?

3. Who arrives in a white town car and shoots a policeman and bombs Municipal Fire Station No. 2?

4. What stories does Grandfather tell The Boy?

5. What happens when a woman striker is shot?

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