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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rondal say about C.J. and Booker in relation to miners?
(a) Miners are against their partnership.
(b) Miners don't believe in socialism.
(c) Miners think they are too rich to care.
(d) Miners consider them outsiders.

2. Where do most, or all, of Clabe's earnings go?
(a) To the company store for food.
(b) To parents to pay their farm mortgage.
(c) To his son's college fund.
(d) To the hospital for medical expenses.

3. What has the company done with Clabe's family cemetery?
(a) Posted no tresspassing signs.
(b) Dug it up and moved it.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Bulldozed over it and buried it.

4. Why don't the coal companies take Ermel's land?
(a) He is married to the company's president's daughter.
(b) He has information which he uses to blackmail the company's owner.
(c) He doesn't own a very big piece of land.
(d) There is no coal on it.

5. Who does C.J. marry in 1901?
(a) Flora.
(b) Carrie.
(c) Tammy.
(d) Violet.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often, according to the company guards, is C.J. allowed to visit the Lloyd family?

2. What does Carrie's brother Mike not like that upsets his father?

3. For whom does Clabe go to work?

4. What is C.J.'s relationship with his grandfather like?

5. What has happened to the creek on Clabe's family land?

(see the answer key)

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