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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 is the name of Carrie Bishop's family farm?

2. What happens at the club one evening when they are debating the causes of World War I?

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

4. To what does the word snake refer when Clabe uses it when pointing at his paycheck?

5. Why does C.J. send Rondal to talk to Dr. Booker?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened with Rosa and a butterfly when she was young, what reminds her of that, why does she want to leave Mario and what did Mario do to Francesco?

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. What does C.J. realize about Rondal and what does he do about it? How does Rondal respond?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss Storming Heaven based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if Up at the Villa is a successful novel.

3. Is Storming Heaven a novel you would recommend to a friend? Why or why not? Explain.

4. Can a novel be successful and yet many readers not enjoy it? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 3

Setting as far as place and time play an important role in Storming Heaven, if compared to twenty-first century's social mores. Discuss the following:

1. Compare/contrast several aspects of the setting of that day from how it would be today. Consider things such as cultural norms/expectations, technology, religion and medicine.

2. Do you think Storming Heaven would be different if it were set in another country in that same era? Consider particularly class issues.

3. What issues that are present in the time of Storming Heaven would still be issues today? What would no longer be issues? Consider such things as class, women's roles, sexual freedom, propriety and manners, and integrity, and labor laws.

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