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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a traveling salesman leave with Carrie's family in March?

2. What does Carrie do after nursing school?

3. Where did Rosa live during her childhood?

4. What is the name of Carrie Bishop's family farm?

5. Why does Talcott save his money?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Carrie and Lloyd do after having dinner at Miles' house, what does Lloyd tell Carrie the next day and what is her response?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. What happens to C.J.'s grandfather, why is C.J. named what he is named? What happens to C.J.'s grandfather and then to C.J. and his grandmother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

By the end of this book so many of the miners are dead and the union has still not been able to change most of the conditions.

1. Do you think this book ended with any shred of hope? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and Storming Heaven to support your answer.

2. If you had been a miner in this situation do you think you would try again? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and Storming Heaven to support your answer.

3. How do you think a person can have hope when time after time they keep getting ground down? Use examples from your own life and Storming Heaven to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

As in almost any text, there are a number of symbols and metaphors present in Storming Heaven. Discuss one of the following:

1. Choose three major symbols in the novel and discuss their meanings as they occur in various places throughout the text.

2. Choose two major metaphors in the novel and discuss their meanings as they occur in various places throughout the text.

3. Discuss the symbol of "Storming Heaven" as it relates to the miners forming unions.

Essay Topic 3

Carrie decides to marry Albion after Rondal gives her the brush off. She decides she loves both of the men but it might have seemed that she took Albion as the second best choice.

1. List three criteria which you believe are essential for a good marriage. Discuss why you choose those three and then discuss if you believe Carrie and Albion's relationship possesses those qualities. Use examples from the text.

2. List three criteria which you believe make a successful marriage impossible. Discuss why you choose those three and then discuss if you believe Carrie and Albion's relationship possesses those qualities. Use examples from the text.

3. Using the three criteria which you list for both a successful marriage and those which would greatly hinder a successful marriage, argue whether or not you believe Carrie and Albion's marriage will be successful or a failure based upon the six criteria you cited.

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