Storming Heaven: A Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Denise Giardina
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Storming Heaven: A Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Denise Giardina
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What news does C.J. hear that makes him concerned for Rondal?

2. To what does the word snake refer when Clabe uses it when pointing at his paycheck?

3. What does Carrie notice during an outbreak of typhoid?

4. What type of rifle does C.J. prefer?

5. Of what activities is Isom fond?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Carrie figure out about a typhoid outbreak and what do the mining companies tell her when she tries to do something about it?

2. What does Miles tell his father is a good way to make money, what is his father's response and why did Miles end up feeling guilty about the whole idea?

3. How do the club members get out of jail?

4. What do Rondal and C.J. argue about and what does Rondal tell C.J. about the miners?

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

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

7. What does Rondal do after working in the mines for two years and what is the response to his efforts?

8. What happens to C.J.'s grandfather, why is C.J. named what he is named? What happens to C.J.'s grandfather and then to C.J. and his grandmother?

9. What happens at a club meeting when the men are debating World War I?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The miners seem to be imprisoned by poverty.

1. Do you think then miners are truly "imprisoned" by poverty? Why or why not?

2. Discuss ways in which you think the miners could break out of the prison of poverty.

3. Why do you think it is so hard to move out of poverty either then or now? What do you think it takes to move from poverty to plenty or even great wealth?

4. Is your personality such that you think you would be one of the few who do manage to break out of poverty is you were very poor? Explain how you might differ from the miners.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following:

1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?

2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of Storming Heaven, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?

3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements (They may not contain every element of a major plot). Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not. Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 3

By the end of this book so many of the miners are dead and the union has still not been able to change most of the conditions.

1. Do you think this book ended with any shred of hope? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and Storming Heaven to support your answer.

2. If you had been a miner in this situation do you think you would try again? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and Storming Heaven to support your answer.

3. How do you think a person can have hope when time after time they keep getting ground down? Use examples from your own life and Storming Heaven to support your answer.

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