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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. Seeing the man who has been following her, what does Evelyn think?
(a) That he's a detective hired by her mother-in-law to follow her.
(b) That he's a policeman assigned to protect her.
(c) That he is a deranged man stalking her.
(d) That he is a fan who wants her autograph.

2. What does Mameh finally do to make extra money?
(a) Work as a roommaid in a hotel.
(b) Shoplift from small stores.
(c) Dance in a burlesque house.
(d) Submit to the advances of her employer.

3. What do the Hebrew letters on storefronts look like to Evelyn?
(a) Scratches.
(b) Graffiti.
(c) Tally marks.
(d) Bones.

4. What happens when Tateh is beaten by the police and the train The Girl is on starts to move?
(a) He grabs a gun from a militiaman and starts shooting.
(b) He sits down and starts crying.
(c) He runs and grabs onto the back guardrail of the train.
(d) He calls down a curse from heaven.

5. What happens when a woman striker is shot?
(a) The militia is called away.
(b) The workers attack the police.
(c) The strike leaders are arrested for complicity.
(d) Tateh gets elected leader.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the trial, how does Evelyn depict herself at age fifteen?

2. What does Evelyn receive in her divorce settlement?

3. Why does Evelyn call the old man Tateh?

4. What kind of car is Evelyn being chauffeured in as she goes around in New York?

5. What does Father notice as the expedition sails out of the harbor?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does The Boy recover from the trash?

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

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

5. What are the lead workers doing as Perry comes leisurely behind?

6. What is Father's condition when he returns form the Arctic?

7. What crime is Harry K. Shaw accused of committing?

8. What does newspaperman Riis find when he goes to the docks to interview Stanford white about housing for the poor?

9. What is the gossip about Evelyn's disappearances to visit The Girl?

10. What is Perry's attitude towards the Esquimo people?

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