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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 Carrie and Albion marry?

2. What do Carrie and Rondal do in the middle of the night?

3. Who is arrested for murder?

4. To what does Talcott compare the fighting?

5. What does Carrie do at breakfast the morning of the march?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rondal change his methods and why does he change them?

2. What happens when Isom tries to arrest the gun thugs in May of 1920?

3. Why is Carrie relieved about the mine explosion and how does she help after it happened?

4. What is Carrie doing in the hotel and what does she learn about the attacks on the miners? What does Rondal do?

5. What does Carrie do after talking to Rondal, what does Albion tell her and what does she decide?

6. What do Rondal and Carrie do when they reach Charleston and what does Talcott do about the union movement at that point?

7. What does Talcott tell Rondal about the men replacing Chafin's men, what does he ask Rondal and what does Rondal do? What happens to Rondal?

8. What do the mining companies do when their team is going to play Annadel and what is Annadel's response?

9. Why does Rondal visit Homeplace and what is Carrie's response?

10. What happens to Rosa in Chapter 17?

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

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.

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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