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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Talcott ask of Rondal?
(a) To leave the area.
(b) To bring in more reinforcements.
(c) To distribute gas masks.
(d) To call off the attack.

2. What story does Rondal tell a black church congregation?
(a) About the fact that the black miners work the most dangerous jobs for half the pay.
(b) About Johnson being thrown in front of a coal car and crushed.
(c) About Johnson being thrown into the furnace.
(d) About a black miner being made to test the air without a mask.

3. To what does Talcott compare the fighting?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A holocaust.
(c) Fighting among gangs in New York.
(d) Trench fighting in WWI.

4. What is declared in the tent city?
(a) That Rondal is under sentence of death for murder.
(b) Martial law.
(c) That miners must register to stay in the tent city.
(d) That all unemployed miners must vacate the area.

5. Where do the miners expect trouble?
(a) They expect it in Justice county.
(b) In Sheriff Don Chafin's county.
(c) They do not expect trouble since they have preached pacifism.
(d) They expect it all along the way.

6. What does Rondal do about the press when he goes to work an area?
(a) Lets them go down into the mines to see the conditions.
(b) Gives them false information about where he plans to work.
(c) Tells them lies about the bosses.
(d) Notifies them ahead of time.

7. What does Carrie agree to do with Albion?
(a) Get pregnant.
(b) Consider his proposal.
(c) Not tell him no for six months.
(d) Go with him when he leaves.

8. Why does Rondal think it is good to work in the open?
(a) It will show that he is honest.
(b) More miners will get the message.
(c) It will intimidate the bosses.
(d) It will be harder to murder him.

9. Who does Rondal find at Carrie's tent?
(a) A German woman.
(b) A union organizer from Europe.
(c) An Italian woman.
(d) A policeman.

10. For whom are the miners cheering?
(a) The mining camp.
(b) No one.
(c) Everyone.
(d) Annadel.

11. What does Carrie tell Dr. Booker?
(a) That Rondal plans a big surprise at the march.
(b) That the miners plan to stop before they get all the way to their objective.
(c) That she married Rondal in secret.
(d) That she is pregnant.

12. What is Dr. Booker ordered to do?
(a) Testify against Rosa's brother.
(b) Leave Justice County.
(c) Testify against Rondal.
(d) Leave West Virginia.

13. What is Talcott going to do in Chapter 11?
(a) Become a father.
(b) Get married.
(c) Blow up the mine.
(d) Join the army.

14. What does Carrie decide to do?
(a) Rejoin the fight to establish unions.
(b) Go out West with Dr. Booker.
(c) Go to Alaska with Rondal.
(d) Marry her childhood sweetheart.

15. What does Albion discuss at his weekly services?
(a) Ideas about a union.
(b) Justice for the greedy corporations.
(c) Just religion.
(d) Killing the bosses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Talcott's sentence?

2. What is on the train that Carrie rides to Davidson?

3. What do the miners discuss at a meeting in the Fall?

4. What do the night gun thugs do to Talcott's home?

5. Why does Rondal say he comes to the Homeplace?

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