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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 29, 30 and 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it a busy time of the year for Father's business?
(a) It is nearing the Fourth of July.
(b) It is nearly Valentine's Day.
(c) It is the start of football season.
(d) It is close to New Year's Eve.

2. What happens one night that shakes the theater where Houdini had just performed?
(a) A head-on train wreck.
(b) An explosion at the Emerald Isle Fire House.
(c) A boiler blew up in the theater.
(d) A German bomb attack on New York.

3. What began to be heard in the ghettos?
(a) The rattle of streetcars.
(b) The people speaking English.
(c) The sounds of piano lessons.
(d) The calls of ice venders.

4. Who did Houdini meet at a private function thrown by Mr. Stuyvesant Fish?
(a) Al Jolson.
(b) Tavinia Warren Thumb.
(c) Theodore Dreiser.
(d) P. T. Barnum.

5. What became the decorating theme of that day after Morgan talked to Henry Ford?
(a) Wallpaper with Ford cars going up and down.
(b) Pastoral mural wallpaper.
(c) Dollar signs and the Ford logo.
(d) Images of ancient Egypt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mother call after she and the maid clean up the baby?

2. How is it possible for them to travel cheaply?

3. What does Father notice as the expedition sails out of the harbor?

4. What does Doctorow suggest Sigmund Freud's revenge on America was?

5. Where does Evelyn go when she doesn't find Tateh and the girl one day?

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