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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. How is the funeral described?
(a) Pitiful.
(b) Lavish.
(c) Bleak.
(d) Small and intimate.

2. What does Mameh finally do to make extra money?
(a) Work as a roommaid in a hotel.
(b) Dance in a burlesque house.
(c) Submit to the advances of her employer.
(d) Shoplift from small stores.

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

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

5. What is the first response to the police from the museum?
(a) A mutilated Rembrandt.
(b) A grenade thrown into the street.
(c) Dead silence.
(d) A gun shot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the Little Girl to stop working?

2. What does Coalhouse say that causes Sarah to cry and hold the baby?

3. What is worrying Mother back in New Rochelle?

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

5. What is Goldman's political stance?

(see the answer key)

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