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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Talcott save his money?
(a) He wants to help his mother.
(b) He wants to move to New York.
(c) He wants to marry.
(d) He wants to buy a car.

2. Where does Dillon live?
(a) On his family farm.
(b) In the city.
(c) In a cabin.
(d) In company housing.

3. What are the railroad companies doing to the farmers?
(a) Taking their land by eminent domain.
(b) Hiring away the farm laborers.
(c) Taking their mineral rights.
(d) Running track through their grazing lands.

4. What do the railroad companies claim about the answer in question #3?
(a) They can put their tracks wherever they need them.
(b) The have legal ownership.
(c) They need the laborers to lay track.
(d) They have more rights then private citizens.

5. What does Ben Honaker do for a living?
(a) Schoolteacher.
(b) Coal miner.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Merchant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Talcott and Pricie elope?

2. Where do most, or all, of Clabe's earnings go?

3. On what day of the week does Clabe get paid?

4. What does Rondal say about C.J. and Booker in relation to miners?

5. What has the company done with Clabe's family cemetery?

(see the answer key)

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