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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the railroad companies doing to the farmers?
(a) Running track through their grazing lands.
(b) Hiring away the farm laborers.
(c) Taking their mineral rights.
(d) Taking their land by eminent domain.

2. What does Carrie do after nursing school?
(a) Moves to Charleston.
(b) Gets married.
(c) Works for the mine company.
(d) Starts a home health service.

3. What does Rondal's mother tell him when he goes to work in the mines?
(a) She knows it will kill him.
(b) She will not speak to him again.
(c) She is very proud of him.
(d) There is not enough room for him to live with her.

4. What is Rondal's mother's goal for Kerwin?
(a) That he become a mining engineer.
(b) She has no goal for him.
(c) To keep him out of the mines.
(d) That he wait until he is eighteen before working in the mines.

5. Why does C.J. send Rondal to talk to Dr. Booker?
(a) He wants Rondal to meet Booker's daughter.
(b) He thinks there is something wrong with Rondal.
(c) He sees that Rondal has an interest in science.
(d) He wants Booker to talk Rondal out of medical school.

6. What does Carrie do after Lloyd leaves town?
(a) Quits working for the coal miners and opens a free clinic.
(b) Leaves town also and goes to Homeplace.
(c) Follows Lloyd.
(d) Nothing.

7. What does Aunt Becka tell Carrie about the animals in the barn and Christmas?
(a) Her Aunt Becka never said anything about animals and Christmas.
(b) The animals pay homage to Jesus.
(c) The animals don't pay any attention to Christmas.
(d) The animals get sleepy on Christmas Eve.

8. What does Carrie ask Mike to teach her?
(a) How to shoot a gun.
(b) How to ride a horse.
(c) How to split logs.
(d) How to milk a cow.

9. With whom is Talcott in love?
(a) Pricie Justice.
(b) Carrie Bishop.
(c) Ruby Day.
(d) Doris Lightner.

10. Where does Talcott work?
(a) In the drug store.
(b) He doesn't work yet, he is only sixteen.
(c) In the mines.
(d) In the forest he is a logger.

11. Why did Rosa cry as a child?
(a) For a butterfly she accidentally harmed.
(b) When her brother left for war.
(c) When she broke her arm.
(d) Because her mother died.

12. For what does Rondal's mother want him in relation to Kerwin?
(a) To help her keep Kerwin from getting married to Pricie.
(b) To help Kerwin stay in school.
(c) To help her keep Kerwin out of the mines.
(d) To help her teach Kerwin run the family farm.

13. Who does C.J. marry in 1901?
(a) Violet.
(b) Carrie.
(c) Tammy.
(d) Flora.

14. What do the gun thugs do with Johnson?
(a) Throw him in a furnace.
(b) Tell him to leave town.
(c) Throw him in a mine pit.
(d) Beat him up.

15. What does Carrie call her grandmother?
(a) Grandmama.
(b) Aunt Jane.
(c) Aunt Nana.
(d) Nana.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has the company done with Clabe's family cemetery?

2. What does Carrie's Aunt Becka say about her that upsets her?

3. Where do C.J. and his grandmother go to live?

4. What happens to C.J.'s grandfather?

5. How does C.J.'s grandfather address him?

(see the answer keys)

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