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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What promise had Brand made First Ursula and then gone back on?
(a) That he would help her become a newspaper editor.
(b) That he would marry her one day.
(c) That he would set her up in an even bigger show.
(d) That he would let her manage a hotel for him once she was done performing.

2. Who is one of the thieves who stole the pelts from the Scots?
(a) Bonin.
(b) Riley.
(c) Henries.
(d) Farrington.

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

4. What is the last name of the ferryman that Jules takes for himself?
(a) Revoir.
(b) Revere.
(c) Plante.
(d) Henries.

5. How much money does Brand give Rye in Chapter 13?
(a) $100.
(b) $20.
(c) $1,000.
(d) $200.

6. Who wrote the book The Plover, a quote from which Walter begins Part I?
(a) Seamus Heaney.
(b) Brian Doyle.
(c) Rinaldo Bravero.
(d) Amy Pallet.

7. What is Ursula the Great's real name?
(a) Jennifer Friendly.
(b) Margaret Anne Burns.
(c) Francine Walton.
(d) Clara Parkway.

8. Who is the lawyer who gets Rye out of jail?
(a) Winston Henries.
(b) Marshall McLuhan.
(c) Fred Moore.
(d) Fabrize Seppia.

9. Who was First Ursula's manager who fires her for getting too old?
(a) Patrick McLaggan.
(b) Frank McHenry.
(c) Samuel Clagg.
(d) Joe Considine.

10. What language does Gemma speak to Jules in softly before she says goodbye to him for one last time when the coroner takes his body?
(a) Spanish.
(b) French.
(c) Salish.
(d) Italian.

11. What does Gig call Spokane?
(a) The right-ward city.
(b) The theater capital of the west.
(c) The big smoke.
(d) The sewer.

12. Why do the police release Jules to the custody of Gemma in Part II?
(a) The judge lets him go.
(b) He has made bail.
(c) Lemuel Brand secures his release.
(d) He is near death.

13. What is the name of the man who helps Gig and Rye escape the police?
(a) Early Reston.
(b) Francis Ward.
(c) Del Dalveaux.
(d) Lemuel Brand.

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

15. What is the first line of the song Rye picks up in the labor protest and sings himself?
(a) The blood and the lives of children and wives.
(b) And the banner of labor will surely soon wave.
(c) Man and worker are the same.
(d) The home of the brave will be better soon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Elizabeth Gurley Flynn say would make America a paradise on earth?

3. Who is Brand's driver and body man?

4. Who is the prosecutor in Rye's court appearance?

5. What is Gig's prized possession in Part II?

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