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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. Who do the miners shoot at occasionally?

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

3. What does Rondal say about Albion when he has lunch with Carrie?

4. Where does Albion say he wants to go?

5. What happens between Rondal and Carrie while Rondal is at the Homeplace?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after three days of fighting and to what does Talcott compare the fighting?

2. Why do Rondal, Carrie and Booker leave Charleston and where will they have to pass through to get where they are going?

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

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

5. What do the women do after a black child dies?

6. Where does Carrie go when the fighting begins and what does she tell Dr. Booker? What is his response?

7. How does Carrie see Rondal again?

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

9. 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?

10. How are Albion and Isom killed?

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

As the miners march toward Blair Mountain, their number grows; the more they grow, the more they feel certain of their success. This anticipated success leads the striking miners to commit acts that they would not have the strength to perform individually.

1. How do the miners demonstrate the power of a crowd?

2. There are also examples of the power of an individual in the book. What were two of them?

3. Do you think Rondal's reaction to the canceling of the march appropriate? 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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