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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does C.J. not think highly of Isom?
(a) He thinks Isom is incompetent.
(b) He thinks Isom is stealing from him.
(c) He believes Isom lacks ambition.
(d) He believes Isom is cruel.

2. What does Carrie do about her observation from question #63?
(a) Has a new well dug.
(b) Goes to the government.
(c) Tells Miles.
(d) Writes to the drug companies for medicine.

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

4. Why did Rosa cry as a child?
(a) When she broke her arm.
(b) When her brother left for war.
(c) Because her mother died.
(d) For a butterfly she accidentally harmed.

5. What does Carrie's brother Mike not like that upsets his father?
(a) Mining coal.
(b) Riding horses.
(c) Farming or hunting.
(d) Fishing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a traveling salesman leave with Carrie's family in March?

2. Why don't the coal companies take Ermel's land?

3. How does Ermel's keeping his land affect his fortunes?

4. Where do Clabe and his family live?

5. What does Carrie notice during an outbreak of typhoid?

(see the answer key)

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