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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 40.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Father do with all the family watching?
(a) Plays tunes on an ivory cared flute.
(b) Passes out gifts he brought back from the Arctic.
(c) Shows them an Esquimo dance.
(d) Reads pages from his journal.
2. What is the newspaperman, Jacob Riis, writing about at this time?
(a) The music in Harlem.
(b) The trial of the century.
(c) Better housing for the poor.
(d) Stopping the flow of emigrants into the country.
3. What happens when Tateh is beaten by the police and the train The Girl is on starts to move?
(a) He runs and grabs onto the back guardrail of the train.
(b) He sits down and starts crying.
(c) He grabs a gun from a militiaman and starts shooting.
(d) He calls down a curse from heaven.
4. Why do the police pay little attention to burglaries at Father's fireworks factory?
(a) They think the items were simplymisplaced.
(b) They are too concentrated on locating Coalhouse.
(c) There is no sign of breaking and entering.
(d) The sargeant who takes the report forgets to file it.
5. Why does he insist on living a grand style in Europe?
(a) To be able to turn down invitations from kings.
(b) For the sake of the image of the country.
(c) To make sure he is on top in business.
(d) To rub his affluence in other people's noses.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why are Tateh and the girl at home that day?
2. Where does the story of RAGTIME begin?
3. At that time, who was at the top of the business pyramid in the USA?
4. What is the first response to the police from the museum?
5. From where does the North Pole expedition set off?
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