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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 Gurley go after she is released from jail?

2. What does Sergeant Clegg call Gurley when he comes to arrest her at the raid in the section titled Gurley?

3. Where does Rye go with Gurley in the very beginning of Chapter 16?

4. What newspaper ends up printing Gurley's article about the abuses of women in the Spokane jail?

5. Who tells Del Dalveaux that the assassination did not come off?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rye buy with the twenty dollars from Brand, and why?

2. How does Rye feel about traveling with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn in Part III?

3. What does Sullivan say to Gurley that cuts her emotionally when he interviews her in Part IV?

4. What does Gurley discover is going on in the jail when she spends the night there in Part IV?

5. Why does Brand hire Dalveaux?

6. What does Rye learn about Gig from the newspaper in Spokane early in Part IV?

7. Who does Gurley give money to on a whim in Seattle, and why does she do this?

8. What does Al Bolin tell Dalveaux in Part III that actually hurts his feelings?

9. What does Dalveaux think of Brand?

10. Why is Rye worried about Gig after Gig gets out of prison?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay describing the relationship between the First Ursula (Edith) and Margaret Anne Burns, the Second Ursula, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What is the relationship between the police, the wealthy ruling classes and industrialists, and the labor activists? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does Walter explore the brutality of the white settlers' treatment of Native Americans in this novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your arguments.

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