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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 Roldal help a woman do who lost all her sons?

2. What does Rondal say is needed by the union?

3. What has Davidson brought in for his team?

4. Who will help get Rosa into the state hospital?

5. What does Lytton Davidson lament?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Carrie and Albion do after marrying?

2. What does Carrie do after Albion is killed?

3. What do Rondal and Carrie hear about what is happening in the mining camps?

4. What does Rondal find out about the U.S. President and what is his response?

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

6. What does Rosa say about her children and what does Mario do after the explosion in the mine?

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

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

9. What does Albion ask Carrie about her mood, what does he tell her and what is her response?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are a number of interesting questions raised by Storming Heaven. Questions that Giardina may have wanted the readers to consider and think through carefully. Discuss the following:

1. What does the term "author agenda" mean?

2. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the author's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Giardina's probable agenda concerning that idea.

2. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?

3. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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