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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. Why does Talcott save his money?
(a) He wants to marry.
(b) He wants to buy a car.
(c) He wants to help his mother.
(d) He wants to move to New York.

2. What do the railroad companies claim about the answer in question #3?
(a) They can put their tracks wherever they need them.
(b) The have legal ownership.
(c) They have more rights then private citizens.
(d) They need the laborers to lay track.

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

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

5. What is the name of Carrie Bishop's family farm?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Abundance.
(c) Homeplace.
(d) Place of Peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does C.J. send Rondal to talk to Dr. Booker?

2. How often, according to the company guards, is C.J. allowed to visit the Lloyd family?

3. What does Aunt Jane tell Carrie she must learn to do about family members?

4. What does C.J.'s grandfather tell C.J. about his name?

5. What does Clabe do on Saturday after work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rondal's mother tell him when he goes to work for the mines and why does she change her mind?

2. What do the club members discover when they arrive back home and what do they do in response?

3. How does Dillon feel about what the coal companies are doing and what does he do in response to their actions?

4. What does Miles find out about Lloyd, why does he leave Miles' mine and what does Carrie ask him before he leaves?

5. What happened with Rosa and a butterfly when she was young, what reminds her of that, why does she want to leave Mario and what did Mario do to Francesco?

6. What is C.J. thinking about babies and what does he remember about a discussion he had with Dillon? What is Dillon making and why?

7. What does C.J. realize about Rondal and what does he do about it? How does Rondal respond?

8. What does Carrie do after nursing school and where does she live?

9. What are the railroad companies doing to the farmers and how do the get it done?

10. What does Rondal think his father refers to when he talks about the snake and where does most of Clabe's earnings go?

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