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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. How does Morgan dress?
(a) Expensive clothes slightly out of fashion.
(b) Extravagantly, like a prince.
(c) Fashionably for his day.
(d) Simply, like a laborer.

2. What physical abnormality does Pierpont Morgan have?
(a) A large, disfigured red nose.
(b) Ears that stick straight out.
(c) A profound limp.
(d) Crossed eyes.

3. At that time, who was at the top of the business pyramid in the USA?
(a) Astor.
(b) Rockefeller.
(c) J. P. Morgan.
(d) Carnegie.

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

5. What has The Boy taken to doing now that Sarah is communicative?
(a) Playing with the baby.
(b) Asking Sarah endless questions.
(c) Reading to Sarah.
(d) Drawing pictures for Sarah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lecture does Emma Goldman give Younger Brother?

2. Who captures Mother's interest in Atlantic City?

3. What does Coalhouse say that causes Sarah to cry and hold the baby?

4. What does Morgan bring back from Europe every year?

5. Why is Houdini's mothers grave covered with a mound of small stones?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Sarah's funeral like?

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

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

5. What does Father decide to do to make up for the time he has not spent with The Boy?

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

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

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

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

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

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