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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. Why is the girl tied by a rope to the old man's wrists?
(a) Because the girl would dance when the rope was pulled.
(b) Because the girl was insane.
(c) Because girls and women were often kidnapped.
(d) Because the old man was bline.

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

3. What was a main reason for men losing their jobs about the turn of the century?
(a) New immagrants working for less money.
(b) Attempting to form unions.
(c) Companies going bankrupt.
(d) Catching tuberculosis.

4. Why does Evelyn call the old man Tateh?
(a) Because his clothes looked tattered.
(b) Because she met him on Tateh Street.
(c) Because he cannot pronounce his Hebrew name.
(d) Because he would not tell her his real name.

5. Where does Evelyn go when she doesn't find Tateh and the girl one day?
(a) Back to her house to cry.
(b) To a detective to look for them.
(c) To their 2-room flat over a public bath.
(d) To the police to file a missing person's report.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tateh entertain The Girl at home?

2. How has The Boy changed?

3. With whom is Father planning to travel to the North Pole?

4. How is it possible for them to travel cheaply?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Evelyn lose The Girl?

2. What does The Boy think bronze statues are?

3. What is Evelyn doing with Younger Brother after Tateh and The girl leave?

4. What does Younger Brother do for a political rally in Rye, New York?

5. What causes Harry K. Shaw to propose marriage to Evelyn Nesbit?

6. How is Father sent off on his trip with the Perry expedition to the North Pole?

7. What does The Boy recover from the trash?

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

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

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

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