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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 25 and 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After a second trial, what sentence does Harry K. Shaw receive?
(a) The electric chair.
(b) Seven years in prison.
(c) Life in prison.
(d) Remanded to the Manhattan Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

2. What does The Boy see on the ice?
(a) Fishing holes cut into the ice.
(b) Dogs chasing children on the ice.
(c) Old people skating slowly.
(d) Tracks of skate blades that soon are erased.

3. What does the author show between the characters of Evelyn and Tateh?
(a) That everyone has a great opportunity in New York.
(b) That men have more talent than women.
(c) That women have a harder time than men.
(d) The vast cultural difference between classes at that time.

4. What is worrying Mother back in New Rochelle?
(a) Little Boy is refusing to go to school.
(b) She is out of the money that Father left her.
(c) The roof is leading and there is no one to call a repairman.
(d) Father is still gone and she hasn't heard from Younger Brother in days.

5. Who was in the opposite cell of The Tombs as the great escape artist worked his feat?
(a) Harry K. Shaw.
(b) Al Jolson.
(c) Carl Jung.
(d) Theodore Dreiser.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the strike wears on, what is being done for the children?

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

3. What does Riis call his colored map of Manhattan?

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

5. What does Father do with all the family watching?

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