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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Harry K. Thaw go after his escape?
(a) Europe.
(b) To Evelyn's apartment.
(c) Canada.
(d) To New Rochelle.

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

4. Where do the cars come from that are used in the attacks?
(a) Emma Goldman arranges for them.
(b) Younger Brother rents them.
(c) Communists loan them to Coalhouse.
(d) The boys steal them and return them undamaged.

5. What does Father propose to do for Coalhouse?
(a) Repair the car and bribe the Fire House to return it.
(b) Buy Coalhouse a new car.
(c) Pay Coalhouse's employer to increase his salary.
(d) Find Coalhouse a much better job.

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

7. Where do Father and The Boy go in spite of the tension surrounding Coalhouse's being at large?
(a) A Giants baseball game.
(b) On a drive through Harlem.
(c) To Coney Island.
(d) To see the Statue of Liberty.

8. When the New York City papers get the story, what happens with Chief Conklin?
(a) He has to go into hiding.
(b) He becomes hated as the perpetrator of the act of revenge.
(c) He becomes a state-wide hero.
(d) He becomes a target for former abolutionists.

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

10. As the procession crosses into Brooklyn, what is seen settling on the rails of the Brooklyn Bridge?
(a) Gulls.
(b) Bluebirds.
(c) Sparrows.
(d) Small children.

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

12. Why is it a busy time of the year for Father's business?
(a) It is the start of football season.
(b) It is nearly Valentine's Day.
(c) It is nearing the Fourth of July.
(d) It is close to New Year's Eve.

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

14. Who does Younger Brother attach himself to in Mexico?
(a) Francisco Villa.
(b) Santa Ana.
(c) Maximilliano.
(d) Simon Bolivar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What had actually exploded that night?

2. Who cares for the baby while Sarah lay dying in the hospital?

3. What became the decorating theme of that day after Morgan talked to Henry Ford?

4. Where does Father and the family go to get away from the tension?

5. At that time, who was at the top of the business pyramid in the USA?

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