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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. Who shows up driving a new Model-T in front of The Boy's house?
(a) Emma Goldman looking for Mother.
(b) Harry Houdini looking for Father.
(c) A Negro man looking for Sarah.
(d) Evelyn Nesbit looking for Younger Brother.

2. Where does Father and the family go to get away from the tension?
(a) Boston.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Atlantic City.
(d) New York City.

3. When the Negro man goes to the back door and asks for Sarah, what happens?
(a) The Boy asks if he can ride in his car.
(b) Mother goes upstairs but Sarah refuses to come down.
(c) Mother invites him in for tea.
(d) Mother tells him to go away and never return.

4. What kind of music does Coalhouse play?
(a) Modern jazz.
(b) Ragtime.
(c) Classical.
(d) Minstrel show tunes.

5. Who arrives in a white town car and shoots a policeman and bombs Municipal Fire Station No. 2?
(a) Masked men as undercover policemen.
(b) Coalhouse and some Italians.
(c) Several black men holding shotguns.
(d) Coalhouse and Younger Brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Father and Mother sometimes travel down the boardwalk in Atlantic City?

2. How does the knowledge of Coalhouse Walker's activities eventually become known?

3. Who were most of the mourners at Sarah's funeral?

4. Most people think that it was the work of a group of armed men, but what does the newspaper suggest?

5. What does Younger Brother tell Emilio Zapata?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the beginning of the trouble with Coalhouse Walker?

2. What is Younger Brother's first act as a revolutionary and outlaw?

3. What does Sarah try to do to help Coalhouse?

4. What causes Younger Brother to run out of the parlor one evening after dinner?

5. What happens on Houdini's tour of Europe?

6. Describe Morgan's buildings on Madison Avenue in Murray Hill.

7. What does Morgan think about making automobiles available to the masses?

8. That spring, what happens at the Matteawan State Prison Farm?

9. What becomes of Younger Brother?

10. Why does J. P. Morgan want to meet with Henry Ford?

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