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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what does Clabe's family look when walking in the woods?
(a) Wild pigs.
(b) Wild greens.
(c) Squirrels and opossums.
(d) Mushrooms.

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

3. Why does Lloyd get off the train when Carrie is taking him to the doctor?
(a) He knows a doctor in the town where he departed the train.
(b) He saw a gun thug in the other car.
(c) She is taking him to West Virginia.
(d) He doesn't have the money for a doctor.

4. What does Clabe do on Saturday after work?
(a) Gets drunk.
(b) Goes hunting.
(c) Goes to town.
(d) Takes a bath.

5. What news does C.J. hear that makes him concerned for Rondal?
(a) That Rondal is missing.
(b) About the atrocities committed by the Baldwin-Felts guards.
(c) That Rondal has been arrested.
(d) That the mine companies are looking for him.

6. Why does Lloyd Justice come to the clinic?
(a) He has a broken foot.
(b) He wants to meet Carrie.
(c) He has typhoid.
(d) He is bringing in an injured miner.

7. What does Rondal recite one time from school when C.J. visits?
(a) The laws about eminent domain.
(b) The Bill of Rights.
(c) Portion of the Declaration of Independence.
(d) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

8. Who severely injured Francesco?
(a) His brother.
(b) His teacher.
(c) His father.
(d) His horse.

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

14. What do Carrie and Lloyd do after they go to dinner?
(a) Talk all night.
(b) Get in an argument.
(c) Go to bed together.
(d) Go to the clinic and work.

15. 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 her keep Kerwin out of the mines.
(c) To help Kerwin stay in school.
(d) To help her teach Kerwin run the family farm.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. With whom is Talcott in love?

5. What does Aunt Becka tell Carrie about the animals in the barn and Christmas?

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