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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 does Albion live near Homeplace?

2. What does Carrie agree Albion can do?

3. Who has been building bombs?

4. What do Carrie and Rondal do in the middle of the night?

5. To where does Carrie return?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Rosa say about her children and what does Mario do after the explosion in the mine?

3. What does C.J. think about the baseball teams the mining companies form and how is his mind changed?

4. Why is Carrie relieved about the mine explosion and how does she help after it happened?

5. What do Carrie and Albion do after marrying?

6. How does Rondal change his methods and why does he change them?

7. What happens to Rosa in Chapter 17?

8. Why do Rondal, Carrie and Booker leave Charleston and where will they have to pass through to get where they are going?

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

10. How are Albion and Isom killed?

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

As the miners march toward Blair Mountain, their number grows; the more they grow, the more they feel certain of their success. This anticipated success leads the striking miners to commit acts that they would not have the strength to perform individually.

1. How do the miners demonstrate the power of a crowd?

2. There are also examples of the power of an individual in the book. What were two of them?

3. Do you think Rondal's reaction to the canceling of the march appropriate? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

There is a growing gap between the positions of the two camps involved in the growing conflict - the miners and the Company's representatives.

1. Why do you think the mine owners are unwilling to listen to the miners?

2. Do you think the miners are demanding too much from the mine owners? Why or why not?

3. If you were a negotiator between these two groups how would you attempt to forge an agreement?

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