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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does The Girl like the strike?
(a) She likes the snow.
(b) She gets to wear her new coat.
(c) She gets to meet many people.
(d) It gets her out of the one room apartment.

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

4. What is Evelyn Nesbit doing before her husband's trial?
(a) Writing her memoirs.
(b) Rehearsing what she will say on the stand.
(c) Shopping for new clothes to wear to her husband's trial.
(d) Having an affair with the doorman.

5. Where does The Boy get some of Tateh's silhouettes?
(a) Where Younger Brother had thrown them in the trash.
(b) At a flea market in New York.
(c) From a penny store in New Rochelle.
(d) Evelyn Nesbit gives them to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the late 1800s, what seemed to happen in one hundreds?

2. What do Mameh, Tateh, and the Little Girl do to make a living?

3. What does Perry do after the flag is set up?

4. What is the newspaperman, Jacob Riis, writing about at this time?

5. What does the author show between the characters of Evelyn and Tateh?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Tateh is working in the Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts?

2. Why is Houdini thrown out of Bellevue Hospital?

3. Explain how Harry K. Shaw gets to see Harry Houdini.

4. What is it that Evelyn Nesbit does not understand when she sees The Girl tied to her father?

5. How are Tateh and The Girl rescued from being separated?

6. What infatuation comes over Mother's Younger brother?

7. What becomes the fashion among the rich in turn of the century America?

8. What does Tateh notice about The Girl on their train trip.

9. What idea does Tateh have that makes them money.

10. What are Tateh's plans for him and The Girl as they leave New York?

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