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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Clabe and his family live?
(a) In their family farmhouse.
(b) In town in an apartment.
(c) In a company shack.
(d) In a shanty town outside the city.

2. For whom does Clabe go to work?
(a) He works in the gas station.
(b) For the farmer next door.
(c) He works in the general feed store.
(d) The coal mine company.

3. What does Aunt Jane tell Carrie she must learn to do about family members?
(a) Accept them for who they are.
(b) Try to please them.
(c) Not be like most members of the family.
(d) Not argue with them.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does C.J.'s grandfather address him?

2. Where does Talcott work?

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

4. Why does Rondal think a union organizer is more important than a doctor?

5. For what does C.J. praise Isom?

(see the answer key)

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