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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. Where do C.J. and his grandmother go to live?
(a) No where, they stay on their farm.
(b) With Dillon.
(c) With Clabe.
(d) With Ermel Justice.

2. Why does Miles join an Episcopal Church?
(a) To make social contacts.
(b) His wife is Episcopal.
(c) The priest is a friend of his.
(d) He was converted.

3. What type of rifle does C.J. prefer?
(a) A 30-30.
(b) The Remington 436.
(c) A 16 gauge shotgun.
(d) The The Krag-Jorgensen rifle.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does C.J.'s grandfather tell C.J. about his name?

2. Who does C.J. marry in 1901?

3. What does Carrie do after Lloyd leaves town?

4. What does Carrie do after nursing school?

5. On what day of the week does Clabe get paid?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Albion came to stay at Carrie's house?

2. What does Carrie do after nursing school and where does she live?

3. 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?

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

5. Why does Carrie learn to hunt, what does Miles' father want him to do after high school and what does he do?

6. What does Carrie say she first remembers about Ben Honaker and her sister?

7. Who is unhappy about Flora's wedding, why is she, what does she tell Flora and what is Carrie's response to that to Flora?

8. What does Carrie figure out about a typhoid outbreak and what do the mining companies tell her when she tries to do something about it?

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

10. What does Rondal's mother tell him when he goes to work for the mines and why does she change her mind?

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