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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Carrie notice during an outbreak of typhoid?
(a) The well in the town has been contaminated.
(b) The miners go to work when sick and spread the disease.
(c) There is no medicine for the miners.
(d) The cause is how the coal shacks are built.

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

3. What is C.J.'s relationship with his grandfather like?
(a) Very close.
(b) Confrontational.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Distant he lives in another state.

4. What does Carrie do after nursing school?
(a) Starts a home health service.
(b) Gets married.
(c) Moves to Charleston.
(d) Works for the mine company.

5. What do the men in the Annadel Political and Social Club begin to collect?
(a) Promises of financial support.
(b) Signed petitions against Baldwin-Felts.
(c) Photographs of wrong doings.
(d) Rifles.

6. What does a traveling salesman leave with Carrie's family in March?
(a) A washing machine.
(b) His son.
(c) His daughter.
(d) A new kind of refridgerator.

7. For what does Rondal's mother want him in relation to Kerwin?
(a) To help her keep Kerwin from getting married to Pricie.
(b) To help Kerwin stay in school.
(c) To help her teach Kerwin run the family farm.
(d) To help her keep Kerwin out of the mines.

8. How does C.J. feel about Rondal's activities with coal miners?
(a) Proud.
(b) Indifferernt.
(c) Angry.
(d) Disappointed.

9. What does Aunt Becka tell Carrie about the animals in the barn and Christmas?
(a) The animals pay homage to Jesus.
(b) Her Aunt Becka never said anything about animals and Christmas.
(c) The animals get sleepy on Christmas Eve.
(d) The animals don't pay any attention to Christmas.

10. For what does C.J. praise Isom?
(a) Knowing how to control a rowdy horse.
(b) Taking care of his mother.
(c) Likes everyone regardless of race or wealth.
(d) Being very intelligent.

11. With whom does Rondal have a casual affair?
(a) Candy Ross.
(b) Doris Lightner.
(c) Ruby Day.
(d) Carrie Bishop.

12. What does Carrie call her grandmother?
(a) Nana.
(b) Grandmama.
(c) Aunt Jane.
(d) Aunt Nana.

13. What is Rondal's mother's goal for Kerwin?
(a) To keep him out of the mines.
(b) That he become a mining engineer.
(c) She has no goal for him.
(d) That he wait until he is eighteen before working in the mines.

14. What does Rondal's mother tell him when he goes to work in the mines?
(a) She knows it will kill him.
(b) She is very proud of him.
(c) There is not enough room for him to live with her.
(d) She will not speak to him again.

15. Who does the coal company doctor refuse to treat?
(a) Black people.
(b) Immigrants.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Talcott and Pricie elope?

2. Where did Rosa live during her childhood?

3. What does Carrie's Aunt Becka say about her that upsets her?

4. What does Carrie do after Lloyd leaves town?

5. What happens at the club one evening when they are debating the causes of World War I?

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