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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Coalhouse and his boys end up in the marble museum?
(a) The museum had more room.
(b) The boys scouted out the wrong building.
(c) The Morgan house was heavily guarded.
(d) The boys could not find Morgan's house.

2. Who arrives in a white town car and shoots a policeman and bombs Municipal Fire Station No. 2?
(a) Masked men as undercover policemen.
(b) Coalhouse and some Italians.
(c) Coalhouse and Younger Brother.
(d) Several black men holding shotguns.

3. Who is arrested after Coalhouse takes over the museum?
(a) Father.
(b) Houdini.
(c) Younger Brother.
(d) Emma Goldman.

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

5. What happens to Coalhouse after he comes out of the museum with his hands raised?
(a) He is attacked by Willie Conklin.
(b) He is executed in a volly of gunfire.
(c) He gets away when the generators fail.
(d) He is taken to jail.

6. What does Morgan bring back from Europe every year?
(a) Boatloads of gold and silver.
(b) Orphans he adopted every year.
(c) Art, rare manuscripts, jades, bronzes, tapestries, and crystal.
(d) Skilled workers to work on his projects.

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

8. What do the police discover as they go through the wreckage of the demolished building?
(a) Two of the victims had been shot; it was a case of murder.
(b) The fire started when a cook stove blew up.
(c) A fireman had thrown a cigarette into a gas can.
(d) The building exploded because of an earthquake.

9. What is Father worried about after the murders?
(a) That Coalhouse may run to them for refuge.
(b) That someone will try to blow up their house.
(c) That the community will think they helped Coalhouse commit the crime.
(d) That they have Coalhouse's baby in their home.

10. How do Father and Mother sometimes travel down the boardwalk in Atlantic City?
(a) They ride in a horse drawn hansom.
(b) They are pushed in wheeled, wicker chairs.
(c) They go on a trolley.
(d) They go on rollerskates.

11. What is the truth about Baron Ashkenazy?
(a) He is not a baron at all.
(b) He is from noble German royalty.
(c) He fears American mothers.
(d) He is not the father of the girl.

12. What returns to Father at the sea in Atlantic City?
(a) His weight begins to drop off.
(b) Father's desire to make love to Mother.
(c) His color returns to normal.
(d) His hair begins to grow again on top of his head.

13. What is Father's relationship with Mother after he returns from the Arctic?
(a) They no longer share a bedroom.
(b) Father thinks she does not measure up to the Esquimo woman.
(c) They go back to being like newly weds.
(d) They slip into an undemanding companionship.

14. Most people think that it was the work of a group of armed men, but what does the newspaper suggest?
(a) It was someone who mistook the station for a bank.
(b) It was an inside job.
(c) It was the Fire Chief.
(d) It was the work of one crazed killer.

15. Who does Coalhouse plan to kidnap and exchange for Willie Conklin?
(a) Henry Ford.
(b) Evelyn Nesbit.
(c) Harry Houdini.
(d) Pierpont Morgan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What could The Boy see in the polished rear doors of the Pierce Arrow hearse?

2. What happens to Sarah in the hospital?

3. Why is it a busy time of the year for Father's business?

4. What new activity does Younger Brother take up?

5. What does the family learn about Coalhouse Walker, Jr.?

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