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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a main reason for men losing their jobs about the turn of the century?
(a) New immagrants working for less money.
(b) Companies going bankrupt.
(c) Catching tuberculosis.
(d) Attempting to form unions.

2. What is Evelyn Nesbit doing before her husband's trial?
(a) Shopping for new clothes to wear to her husband's trial.
(b) Having an affair with the doorman.
(c) Writing her memoirs.
(d) Rehearsing what she will say on the stand.

3. What do the Hebrew letters on storefronts look like to Evelyn?
(a) Bones.
(b) Scratches.
(c) Graffiti.
(d) Tally marks.

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

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

6. What happens when the Young Man hides in Goldman's closet?
(a) He faints when he sees Evelyn in the nude.
(b) He sees Evelyn naked and loses control.
(c) He gets caught when Goldman hangs up her coat.
(d) He covers his eyes when Godlman gives Evelyn a massage.

7. What does Doctorow suggest Sigmund Freud's revenge on America was?
(a) Having so many psychiatrists in America.
(b) Turning Carl Jung loose on America.
(c) Destroying sex in America forever.
(d) Sending his European students to America.

8. As the strike wears on, what is being done for the children?
(a) They are given extra rations in the soup kitchens.
(b) They are enlisted to march in the picket lines.
(c) They are being boarded by wealthy families in other cities.
(d) They are sent to private schools.

9. What was a popular type of entertainment show in those days?
(a) Sing alongs.
(b) Minstrels in black face.
(c) Color motion pictures.
(d) Classic concerts.

10. What stories does Grandfather tell The Boy?
(a) Tales of the Old West.
(b) Tales from his youth.
(c) Aesop's fables.
(d) Tales from Ovid.

11. What do they do the day before the expedition heads out for the North Pole?
(a) Climb the bird cliffs to catch birds and collect eggs.
(b) Spend a day in prayer and fasting.
(c) Choose Esquimo women to drive their dog sleds.
(d) Tear down the igloos they had built on deck.

12. What causes the Little Girl to stop working?
(a) She is forced to go to school.
(b) She gets tuberculosis.
(c) She is kidnapped by pimps.
(d) She falls and breaks her hand.

13. What happens when a woman striker is shot?
(a) Tateh gets elected leader.
(b) The militia is called away.
(c) The strike leaders are arrested for complicity.
(d) The workers attack the police.

14. What is Goldman's political stance?
(a) Republicanism.
(b) Abolutionism.
(c) Anarchism.
(d) Socialism.

15. What do Mameh, Tateh, and the Little Girl do to make a living?
(a) Sing and dance on the streets.
(b) Make deliveries on bicycles.
(c) Sell on the streets and sew patches by hand.
(d) Take in boarders.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is on the mind of Mother's Younger Brother?

2. What is Matthew Henson's special knowledge that make him invaluable to Perry?

3. What does Father think about when he sees the new immigrants?

4. which immigrants are sent back home?

5. What does Tateh do for the strike organizers?

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