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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1 - 67).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refrain do the labor protesters keep saying during the police crackdown in Part I?
(a) Joe Hill Never Died.
(b) Workers Unite.
(c) Forward.
(d) Hold the line.

2. What is the last thing that the dying person in the section titled Waterbury, 1909 thinks?
(a) He thinks about his infant son.
(b) He thinks about his wife Rebecca.
(c) He thinks about his late mother.
(d) He thinks about hot coffee.

3. Whose house do Gig and Rye stay in for a time in Spokane as paying boarders?
(a) Mr. Plante's.
(b) Ma Rinaldi's.
(c) Mrs. Ricci's.
(d) Mrs. Jessup's.

4. Who runs from the police with Gig and Rye as they flee the ballfield?
(a) Jules and a person they do not know.
(b) Jules and Ursula the Great.
(c) Jules and Lem.
(d) Jules and Elizabeth.

5. Who starts the wheels in motion that eventually end up in Rye getting released from prison?
(a) The Salvation Army inspector.
(b) Lemuel Brand.
(c) Ursula the Great.
(d) Gig.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gig often call Rye as a term of affection?

2. Where do Rye and Gig wake up in Chapter 1?

3. Who is the acting Chief of Police in Spokane?

4. What newspaper does Sullivan buy in Chapter 5?

5. What does the narrator of the section titled The Kid, 1864, think as he goes over the falls?

(see the answer key)

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