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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. Who runs from the police with Gig and Rye as they flee the ballfield?
(a) Jules and Elizabeth.
(b) Jules and Lem.
(c) Jules and Ursula the Great.
(d) Jules and a person they do not know.

2. What is the true nature of Gemma's relationship with Jules?
(a) She is his daughter.
(b) She is is niece.
(c) She is his sister.
(d) She is his ex-wife.

3. How did tramps traveling in Spokane know it?
(a) By its large department stores.
(b) By its smells.
(c) By its saloons.
(d) By its rail stations.

4. Who wrote the book The Plover, a quote from which Walter begins Part I?
(a) Seamus Heaney.
(b) Brian Doyle.
(c) Amy Pallet.
(d) Rinaldo Bravero.

5. What does the stranger do to one of the police who are harassing Gig and Rye?
(a) He pushes him off the cliff into the river.
(b) He shoots the police officer.
(c) He stabs him with a knife.
(d) He hits him hard on the jaw with the policeman's own club.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Elizabeth Gurley Flynn say would make America a paradise on earth?

2. What is Gig's prized possession in Part II?

3. How much time does Fred Moore say the authorities are seeking to charge Gig with serving for his supposed crimes in Part II?

4. What is the last name of the ferryman that Jules takes for himself?

5. Who is giving Gurley a particularly hard time about her work when Rye first meets her?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rye follow Gig to the labor protests in Part I even though Gig tells him not to?

2. What are the conditions in the jail that Rye and Gig are in like?

3. Why are Gig and Rye sleeping in a ballfield in Chapter 1?

4. Why do the police let Jules out of jail and where does he go?

5. What is the true nature of Gemma's relationship with Jules, and why has she hidden this?

6. Why did Rye come West looking for Gig?

7. What is the last thing Waterbury thinks of before he dies, and why?

8. Why does Rye get arrested at the labor rally in Part I?

9. What does Rye think of Lemuel Brand's house?

10. Where did Rye meet his old friend Jules?

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