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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. Why does C.J. send Rondal to talk to Dr. Booker?
(a) He wants Booker to talk Rondal out of medical school.
(b) He sees that Rondal has an interest in science.
(c) He wants Rondal to meet Booker's daughter.
(d) He thinks there is something wrong with Rondal.

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

3. 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 can put their tracks wherever they need them.
(d) They have more rights then private citizens.

4. Where does C.J. hear Rondal has now moved by the end of Chapter 10?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) St. Louis.

5. What did Dr. Booker ask C.J. to do during a cholera epidemic?
(a) Print up information leaflets.
(b) Donate medicine.
(c) Take some of the sick into his home.
(d) Clean up the drinking water supply.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rondal's mother's goal for Kerwin?

2. What do Carrie and Lloyd do after they go to dinner?

3. For whom does Clabe go to work?

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

5. Who does the coal company doctor refuse to treat?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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 Rondal do when he visits C.J. and how does that help his family?

7. What are the railroad companies doing to the farmers and how do the get it done?

8. What does Rondal do on his first day in the mines and how does he feel at the end of the day?

9. 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?

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

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