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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 does Albion live near Homeplace?

2. What does Rondal do about the press when he goes to work an area?

3. Where does Rondal go?

4. What is on the train that Carrie rides to Davidson?

5. Who is constantly rude to Pricie?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Carrie do after Albion is killed?

3. What do Carrie and Albion do after marrying?

4. 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?

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

6. What does Carrie do when Rondal brings her breakfast and what does she tell him?

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

8. What do the miners do during the summer after the strike begins and why does Rondal have to leave?

9. How does Carrie see Rondal again?

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

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

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

There are a number of themes in Storming Heaven. Discuss one of the following:

1. Choose two major themes and analyze them and discuss examples of where that theme appears in the text.

2. Compare and contrast two major themes in the novel to those themes found in other texts/movies with which you are familiar.

3. Other than class, which theme do you think is the major theme of the book? Discuss why and give example

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