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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. Where do C.J. and his grandmother go to live?

2. What does Carrie's Aunt Becka say about her that upsets her?

3. What does Clabe do on Saturday after work?

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

5. Where does Rondal go with C.J. when he visits?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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 Carrie say she first remembers about Ben Honaker and her sister?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. Compare/contrast Rowley Flint with Edgar Swift. How are they alike? How are they different? Are they sympathetic characters? Who would you most likely have as a friend? Why? Is each one believable? Why or why not.

2. Compare/contrast Rowley Flint with Karl Richter. How are they alike? How are they different? Are they sympathetic characters? Who would you most likely have as a friend? Why? Is each one believable? Why or why not.

3. Compare/contrast Mary as she seems early in the book and in her flashbacks to how Mary is by the end of the book. Is she the same? Different? Wiser? More or less daring? Is she likable? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

The farmers' lands are taken from them and the coal companies move in to virtually take over the area and the miners' lives, controlling their housing, food and how they can spend their money.

1. How do you think powerlessness engenders anger?

2. What are alternatives to anger to deal with powerlessness?

3. Do you believe the anger seen in the miners' lives is caused by their powerlessness? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

There is a growing gap between the positions of the two camps involved in the growing conflict - the miners and the Company's representatives.

1. Why do you think the mine owners are unwilling to listen to the miners?

2. Do you think the miners are demanding too much from the mine owners? Why or why not?

3. If you were a negotiator between these two groups how would you attempt to forge an agreement?

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