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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Mother accomplished during Father's absence?
(a) She has cut her hair and started wearing the latest fashions.
(b) She has opened a music school in the parlor.
(c) She has taken on executive responsibility for the business.
(d) She has become a social worker.

2. Who becomes Evelyn's lover?
(a) Younger Brother.
(b) Houdini.
(c) Goldman.
(d) Tateh.

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

4. When Freud visited New York and saw the early motion pictures, what was his thought?
(a) At least they are silent.
(b) They hurt my eyes.
(c) Americans have too much leisure time.
(d) These could be used on my patients.

5. What does Tateh have that finally makes them money?
(a) His art supplies.
(b) His new coat and tie.
(c) The Girl's new cloak and hat.
(d) The flip book he made for The Girl which he sells for $25.

6. What does Perry do after the flag is set up?
(a) He has sex with an Esquimo woman.
(b) He rolls in the snow.
(c) He dances a jig.
(d) He takes photos.

7. What is a theme established in the first two chapters?
(a) Immigartion.
(b) Isolationism.
(c) Patriotism.
(d) Adventure.

8. What does Father present to commander Perry before he heads out to the North Pole?
(a) A new American flag made in Father's factory.
(b) A pair of fur lined boots.
(c) A leather bound Bible.
(d) A new music roll for his player piano.

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

10. What plea does Shaw's mother want him to make in court but he flatly refuses?
(a) No lo contendre.
(b) Amnesia.
(c) Insanity.
(d) Self defense.

11. On board the Roosevelt, how does Admiral Perry live?
(a) He is the most comfortable with a player piano in his cabin.
(b) He lives as ruggedly as the Esquimos.
(c) He shares a cabin with Father and Matthew Henson.
(d) He takes an Esquimo woman for a bed warmer.

12. What worries Tateh as he observes The Girl?
(a) She doesn't seem to be growing.
(b) She slouches like a depressed person.
(c) She is maturing and has no mother to guide her.
(d) She has no color from staying inside so long.

13. 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.

14. How does Tateh entertain The Girl at home?
(a) He tells her stories of the old country.
(b) He teaches her how to dance.
(c) He teaches her old Yiddish songs.
(d) He makes silhouette thumb books for her to look at.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do most of the 1mmigrants find as they settle in New York?

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

3. What was the physical condition of the rich prior to William Howard Taft becoming President?

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

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

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