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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Mike and Mary decide about their boarding business?
(a) To take in more boarders.
(b) To make no changes.
(c) To end the business.
(d) To raise the rent.

2. Who is diagnosed with consumption?
(a) Johnnie.
(b) Mary and Pauline.
(c) Mary.
(d) Pauline.

3. Who does Dobie pick up at the train station for George's funeral?
(a) Francka.
(b) Agnes.
(c) Anna.
(d) Mikie.

4. At the beginning of Part 3, Chapter 1, what year is it?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1912.

5. Who takes family pictures before Mikie leaves to catch a train back to New York?
(a) Julie.
(b) Mikie.
(c) Anna.
(d) Dobie.

6. What makes Mike and Mary happy about their boarding business decision?
(a) They have to deal with only four boarders.
(b) They are making more money.
(c) Mary does not have to do all the work.
(d) They are happy to be alone.

7. What incident in Pittsburgh upsets Dobie?
(a) Members of a striking lodge are arrested for disturbing the peace.
(b) Striking lodges are labeled as Socialistic.
(c) Striking lodges are expelled from the union.
(d) Members' names of striking lodges are blacklisted.

8. As Part 4, Chapter 1 begins, what character is now known as Dobie?
(a) Mikie.
(b) Joe.
(c) Johnnie.
(d) George.

9. What is Dobie discussing with a man named Stever from Uniontown?
(a) The company unions.
(b) Politics.
(c) The worker unions.
(d) The economy.

10. What does Mike expect to happen after he votes?
(a) Mike expects to be treated better by the mill.
(b) Mike expects to be fired.
(c) Mike expects to get more work hours from the mill.
(d) Mike expects to be ridiculed by his co-workers.

11. What political party does Mike's candidate represent?
(a) Socialist.
(b) Democrat.
(c) Republican.
(d) Independent.

12. Who is in the meeting with management for Dobie's mill?
(a) Carnegie.
(b) Paul.
(c) Dobie.
(d) George.

13. What event is causing economic conditions to worsen in the factories and mills?
(a) Prohibition.
(b) The Great Depression.
(c) The Spoils System.
(d) Fallout from World War I.

14. With how many children has Mike left Mary?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

15. Why are some of the company's workers fired during the election year?
(a) The workers strike.
(b) The workers won't follow the company's voting directives.
(c) The workers try to organize a union.
(d) The workers vote to go non-union.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gets a job selling papers two years after Mike's death?

2. Who is Tighe?

3. Who does management finally agree to meet with after the rank-and-file workers are ignored?

4. When George comes to live with Mary in Munhall Hollow, how much rent does he pay?

5. Who watches Mary's children when Mary goes out to work?

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