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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who captures Mother's interest in Atlantic City?
(a) A child who comes to play with the baby.
(b) Baron Ashkenazy.
(c) The family from Philadelphia.
(d) The fat New Yorkers.

2. What kind of music does Coalhouse play?
(a) Ragtime.
(b) Modern jazz.
(c) Classical.
(d) Minstrel show tunes.

3. Why does Baron Ashkenazy say his daughter is sad and seldom speaks?
(a) She suffered from migraines.
(b) She was missing Europe.
(c) She had lost her kitten.
(d) Her mother had died some years ago.

4. What event is a great disappointment to Morgan?
(a) The opening of his 1,000th bank.
(b) His last birthday party when no one came.
(c) A dinner party of a dozen of the most powerful men in America.
(d) The Harry Houdini show in New York.

5. What does Father observe about the game of baseball as opposed to the way they played at Harvard twenty years before?
(a) It was crude rather than gentlemanly like at Harvard.
(b) The uniforms were more practical now.
(c) The rules had changed quite a bit.
(d) At Harvard the team was made up of immigrants.

6. What is the result when the newspapers succeed in getting the Model-T raised from the pond?
(a) The photos in the papers made Coalhouse even angrier.
(b) The authorities were embarrassed because it showed the cruelty imposed on Coalhouse.
(c) No one was interested in coming to see it.
(d) The new police chief announced it was the work of communists.

7. In reality, who are the baron and his daughter?
(a) A labor organizer and his niece.
(b) Tateh and The Girl.
(c) A Vaudeville father and daughter act.
(d) Movie actors from Edison's studio.

8. When a reporter looks up Houdini to get his reaction to the escape, where is he found?
(a) On his way to Europe.
(b) At his mother's grave.
(c) Escaping from a trunk in the East River.
(d) In the theater.

9. At that time, who was at the top of the business pyramid in the USA?
(a) J. P. Morgan.
(b) Rockefeller.
(c) Astor.
(d) Carnegie.

10. Who were most of the mourners at Sarah's funeral?
(a) Hired mourners.
(b) Musician friends of Coalhouse.
(c) New York policemen.
(d) Father, Mother, Younger Brother, and The Boy.

11. How does the knowledge of Coalhouse Walker's activities eventually become known?
(a) A black lawyer gets information from one of Coalhouse's gang.
(b) One of the gang members drops out and goes to the police.
(c) Younger Brother keeps a diary of every day with Coalhouse.
(d) Coalhouse writes everything down to be opened after his death.

12. What happens when Red Jack Murray hits a high pop up ball?
(a) It hits Father in the face.
(b) The Boy catches it.
(c) Everyone boos the pitcher.
(d) The umpire gets hit in the head.

13. Where is Sarah funeral held?
(a) In the Bronx.
(b) In South Carolina.
(c) In Harlem.
(d) In New Rochelle.

14. Who in the family understands and admires Coalhouse?
(a) Mother.
(b) Younger Brother.
(c) Father.
(d) The Boy.

15. What finally really captures Morgan's attention in the world?
(a) Egyptology.
(b) The Holy Lands.
(c) The philosopher's stone.
(d) Renaissance art and music.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the funeral described?

2. Why does Father go to the police?

3. What had actually exploded that night?

4. How does Morgan dress?

5. Where do Younger Brother and Father die?

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