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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 happens when Red Jack Murray hits a high pop up ball?
(a) It hits Father in the face.
(b) Everyone boos the pitcher.
(c) The Boy catches it.
(d) The umpire gets hit in the head.

2. Who cares for the baby while Sarah lay dying in the hospital?
(a) Mother holds the baby constantly.
(b) Younger Brother moves into Sarah's room and cares for the baby.
(c) The Boy takes charge of the baby.
(d) Coalhouse comes and looks after the baby.

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

4. How had Father gotten his start in business?
(a) He discovered a buried treasure.
(b) His rich uncle left the business to him.
(c) He was apprenticed to an Italian fireworks maker.
(d) As an orphan, when he reached maturity he inherited a small amount of money.

5. What innovation of Henry Ford's was about to revolutionize American manufacturing?
(a) Better conditions for the factory workers.
(b) The invention of the diesel truck.
(c) The assembly line production of automobiles.
(d) Spray painting by machine.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Negro man goes to the back door and asks for Sarah, what happens?

2. Who gets the rebuilt Model-T?

3. Who shows up driving a new Model-T in front of The Boy's house?

4. Who becomes alarmed when a full military assault on the museum is suggested?

5. What does Younger Brother tell Emilio Zapata?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Sarah's funeral like?

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

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

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

5. After Coalhouse arranges for his gang to escape, what happens to him?

6. What causes the theater to shake where Houdini is performing?

7. What happens to Sarah at the rally?

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

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

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

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