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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When a reporter looks up Houdini to get his reaction to the escape, where is he found?
(a) Escaping from a trunk in the East River.
(b) On his way to Europe.
(c) In the theater.
(d) At his mother's grave.
2. What became the decorating theme of that day after Morgan talked to Henry Ford?
(a) Images of ancient Egypt.
(b) Dollar signs and the Ford logo.
(c) Pastoral mural wallpaper.
(d) Wallpaper with Ford cars going up and down.
3. 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.
4. What event is a great disappointment to Morgan?
(a) A dinner party of a dozen of the most powerful men in America.
(b) The opening of his 1,000th bank.
(c) The Harry Houdini show in New York.
(d) His last birthday party when no one came.
5. Where do the cars come from that are used in the attacks?
(a) Emma Goldman arranges for them.
(b) Younger Brother rents them.
(c) The boys steal them and return them undamaged.
(d) Communists loan them to Coalhouse.
6. What happens to Sarah in the hospital?
(a) Sarah losses her memory.
(b) She recovers.
(c) She dies.
(d) Coalhouse breaks their engagement.
7. Why does Father go to the police?
(a) To tell what he knows about Coalhouse Walker, Jr.
(b) To throw them off the trail of Coalhouse.
(c) To ask for police protection for his family.
(d) To find out if the police know where Coalhouse is.
8. What do the police discover as they go through the wreckage of the demolished building?
(a) The fire started when a cook stove blew up.
(b) The building exploded because of an earthquake.
(c) A fireman had thrown a cigarette into a gas can.
(d) Two of the victims had been shot; it was a case of murder.
9. What is the first response to the police from the museum?
(a) A mutilated Rembrandt.
(b) Dead silence.
(c) A gun shot.
(d) A grenade thrown into the street.
10. What happens at the Emerald Isle Fire Station?
(a) Young brother goes to apply for a job.
(b) Coalhouse and Sarah get married.
(c) Coalhouse is not allowed to pass and his car is vandalized.
(d) Father provides the bunting for a barbecue.
11. What lecture does Emma Goldman give Younger Brother?
(a) That he should travel to the West Coast.
(b) That he should forget Evelyn and get on with his life.
(c) That he should learn another trade and make some real money.
(d) That he should organize the union in Father's business.
12. Where is Sarah funeral held?
(a) In the Bronx.
(b) In South Carolina.
(c) In Harlem.
(d) In New Rochelle.
13. What had actually exploded that night?
(a) A small canon.
(b) The boiler of the overturned fire wagon.
(c) fireworks at Father's plant.
(d) A homemade bomb.
14. On the milk train going back to New Rochelle, what does Younger Brother contemplate?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Buying a Model-T.
(c) Getting married.
(d) A new poem.
15. What happens one night that shakes the theater where Houdini had just performed?
(a) A head-on train wreck.
(b) A boiler blew up in the theater.
(c) An explosion at the Emerald Isle Fire House.
(d) A German bomb attack on New York.
Short Answer Questions
1. What has The Boy taken to doing now that Sarah is communicative?
2. What had Morgan once done for the U.S. government?
3. In reality, who are the baron and his daughter?
4. What are the ages of Coalhouse's followers?
5. Where does Harry K. Thaw go after his escape?
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