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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. Where do thousands of miners and their families live throughout the summer?

2. What do the night gun thugs do to Talcott's home?

3. What story does Rondal tell a black church congregation?

4. How do they get miners to the staging area?

5. About what is Rondal and Carrie's conversation the night before the upcoming fight?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after three days of fighting and to what does Talcott compare the fighting?

2. What happens when Rondal and the others arrive at Blair Mountain?

3. What does Carrie do after Albion is killed?

4. How are Albion and Isom killed?

5. Why does Rondal visit Homeplace and what is Carrie's response?

6. What do Rondal and Carrie hear about what is happening in the mining camps?

7. What do Rondal and Carrie do when they reach Charleston and what does Talcott do about the union movement at that point?

8. What do Carrie and Albion do after marrying?

9. What is Albion doing when he returns to Homeplace and what does he say to Carrie? How does Carrie's family feel about him being back in town?

10. What do the miners do during the summer after the strike begins and why does Rondal have to leave?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Plots are sometimes said to be either character-driven or action-driven. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think Storming Heaven is more character-driven or action-driven? Explain.

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 3

There are a number of themes in Storming Heaven. Discuss one of the following:

1. Choose two major themes and analyze them and discuss examples of where that theme appears in the text.

2. Compare and contrast two major themes in the novel to those themes found in other texts/movies with which you are familiar.

3. Other than class, which theme do you think is the major theme of the book? Discuss why and give example

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