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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. Who were most of the mourners at Sarah's funeral?
(a) Father, Mother, Younger Brother, and The Boy.
(b) New York policemen.
(c) Musician friends of Coalhouse.
(d) Hired mourners.

2. What famous person is in the auto accident in front of Father's house?
(a) J. P. Morgan.
(b) Will Bill Cody.
(c) Evelyn Nesbit.
(d) Harry Houdini.

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

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

5. What is Father's great guilt?
(a) That he had not thought of his family while he was gone.
(b) That he had lost his interest in business.
(c) That he had slept with an Esquimo woman.
(d) That he had killed an auk.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Morgan bring back from Europe every year?

3. What does Tateh do for the strike organizers?

4. Where does The Boy get some of Tateh's silhouettes?

5. What change is obvious in Younger Brother?

(see the answer key)

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