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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Carrie do after Lloyd leaves town?
(a) Follows Lloyd.
(b) Leaves town also and goes to Homeplace.
(c) Quits working for the coal miners and opens a free clinic.
(d) Nothing.

2. What happens to C.J.'s grandfather?
(a) His legs are broken.
(b) He is moved to Virginia.
(c) He is murdered.
(d) He dies of a heart attack.

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

4. What do the gun thugs do with Johnson?
(a) Throw him in a mine pit.
(b) Tell him to leave town.
(c) Beat him up.
(d) Throw him in a furnace.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lloyd Justice come to the clinic?

2. With whom is Talcott in love?

3. Why did Rosa cry as a child?

4. Where does Dillon live?

5. How many children does C.J. have of his own?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Miles tell his father is a good way to make money, what is his father's response and why did Miles end up feeling guilty about the whole idea?

2. How do the club members get out of jail?

3. From Clabe's stories to Rondal how has the family land changed and what does Clabe and his family do on Sundays?

4. What does C.J. realize about Rondal and what does he do about it? How does Rondal respond?

5. What do Rondal and C.J. argue about and what does Rondal tell C.J. about the miners?

6. What do the club members discover when they arrive back home and what do they do in response?

7. What does Miles find out about Lloyd, why does he leave Miles' mine and what does Carrie ask him before he leaves?

8. How does Dillon feel about what the coal companies are doing and what does he do in response to their actions?

9. What does Rondal do after working in the mines for two years and what is the response to his efforts?

10. What is the medical situation for black coal miners, how does Dr. Booker get medicine for a cholera epidemic and what does Booker show C.J. about black coal miners?

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