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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 new activity does Younger Brother take up?
(a) Going to Broadway plays and waiting in the alley for the stars.
(b) Gambling on the horses.
(c) Learning how to tap dance.
(d) Writing poetry for the newspapers.

2. What is the result when the newspapers succeed in getting the Model-T raised from the pond?
(a) The new police chief announced it was the work of communists.
(b) The authorities were embarrassed because it showed the cruelty imposed on Coalhouse.
(c) No one was interested in coming to see it.
(d) The photos in the papers made Coalhouse even angrier.

3. What happens to Coalhouse after he comes out of the museum with his hands raised?
(a) He gets away when the generators fail.
(b) He is executed in a volly of gunfire.
(c) He is attacked by Willie Conklin.
(d) He is taken to jail.

4. On the milk train going back to New Rochelle, what does Younger Brother contemplate?
(a) A new poem.
(b) Buying a Model-T.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Getting married.

5. Who leaves a message that he wants to meet with Coalhouse?
(a) Fire Chief Conklin.
(b) Tateh.
(c) The new police chief.
(d) Younger Brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens one night that shakes the theater where Houdini had just performed?

2. What is Father's relationship with Mother after he returns from the Arctic?

3. As the procession crosses into Brooklyn, what is seen settling on the rails of the Brooklyn Bridge?

4. Why is it a busy time of the year for Father's business?

5. What event is a great disappointment to Morgan?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What becomes fashionable because of Morgan's obsession with Egyptology?

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

4. How do the police learn about the history of Coalhouse Walker, Jr.?

5. What brings Younger Brother back to life after his breakup with Evelyn?

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

7. When the police cannot find Coalhouse, what does Father do?

8. What suddenly worries Sarah after the Fire House incident?

9. What is Sarah's funeral like?

10. Why does Father return alone to New York, leaving the family in Atlantic City.

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