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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 69 - 127).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did tramps traveling in Spokane know it?
(a) By its large department stores.
(b) By its saloons.
(c) By its smells.
(d) By its rail stations.

2. What does Rye tell Jules when he sees him once on the rockpile?
(a) He will get a message to Jules's wife.
(b) He will get a message to Jules's daughter.
(c) He can get him out soon.
(d) He is sorry.

3. What is Gig's full name?
(a) Richard Gigerland.
(b) Gregory Dolan.
(c) Gregory Haverford.
(d) Richard Gigarow.

4. How did Gig's and Rye's mother die?
(a) From cancer.
(b) From influenza.
(c) From tuberculosis.
(d) In a car accident.

5. What does the stranger do to one of the police who are harassing Gig and Rye?
(a) He pushes him off the cliff into the river.
(b) He hits him hard on the jaw with the policeman's own club.
(c) He shoots the police officer.
(d) He stabs him with a knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the book The Plover, a quote from which Walter begins Part I?

2. What does Brand tell Rye people like Gurley really only want?

3. What mine does Brand know Rye's father worked at in Montana?

4. Who does Gemma ask to go and fetch the coroner after Jules dies in her house?

5. What surprises many of the men around Gurley about her current condition in Part II?

(see the answer key)

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