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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. Of what activities is Isom fond?
(a) Racing horses and hunting.
(b) Chasing women and playing cribbage.
(c) Drinking and gambling.
(d) Reading and astronomy.

2. How often, according to the company guards, is C.J. allowed to visit the Lloyd family?
(a) Only on the first and thrid Sundays.
(b) Once a month.
(c) Anytime he wants.
(d) Once a week

3. Why did Rosa cry as a child?
(a) When she broke her arm.
(b) For a butterfly she accidentally harmed.
(c) Because her mother died.
(d) When her brother left for war.

4. What does Rondal say about C.J. and Booker in relation to miners?
(a) Miners don't believe in socialism.
(b) Miners are against their partnership.
(c) Miners think they are too rich to care.
(d) Miners consider them outsiders.

5. How does Ermel's keeping his land affect his fortunes?
(a) He becomes wealthy.
(b) It doesn't affect his fortunes.
(c) He is poor as his land has no value.
(d) He is shunned by other families in the area so his business goes bankrupt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lloyd tell Carrie about wealthy people?

2. With whom does Rondal have a casual affair?

3. What has the company done with Clabe's family cemetery?

4. What does Carrie notice during an outbreak of typhoid?

5. Where does C.J. hear Rondal has now moved by the end of Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. What happens to Johnson and why does Rondal leave town?

7. 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?

8. What does C.J. find out about Rondal in a letter from him and how does he feel about the information?

9. What happens at a club meeting when the men are debating World War I?

10. What does Rondal think his father refers to when he talks about the snake and where does most of Clabe's earnings go?

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