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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which cop beat Jules up badly when he would not tell him information about Early Reston?
(a) Henries.
(b) Sullivan.
(c) Clegg.
(d) McLaggan.

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

3. Who does Jules's mother send him to live with three years before she dies?
(a) Her own father.
(b) Her sister.
(c) A French ferryman.
(d) A good family friend.

4. What does Gemma reply to her daughter's question asking if Indians can go to heaven?
(a) She says "If anyone can."
(b) She says "We just can not know that."
(c) She says "There is no heaven."
(d) She says "No."

5. How old is Gurley in Part II when Rye meets her?
(a) 19.
(b) 40.
(c) 25.
(d) 32.

6. What does Rye ask Ursula on their car ride in Chapter 13?
(a) How she manages to escape from the cougar every night.
(b) How she learned to sing so well.
(c) Why she decided to come to Spokane in the first place.
(d) How she affords her fine coats and furs.

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

8. What surprises many of the men around Gurley about her current condition in Part II?
(a) She is suffering from tuberculosis.
(b) She is suffering from polio.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She has lost a lot of weight and she looks skeletal.

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

10. Where did the narrator of the section titled The Kid, 1864, ride out of with Bonin?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Idaho.
(c) New York.
(d) Oregon.

11. What do the men in the labor demonstration do in succession?
(a) Light fires in shops.
(b) Shoot at police.
(c) Steal from shops.
(d) Get on soapboxes and start speaking or singing.

12. What is one reason Gemma probably does not want to make Jules's death a cause for the labor movement?
(a) She knew Jules would not approve of the labor movement.
(b) She knew Gig would eventually get some money out of it and she did not want that.
(c) She knew her daughters might pay for it in the end.
(d) She does not want anyone to find out about the true nature of their relationship.

13. What organization has Gig just joined in Part I?
(a) The Molly MgGuires.
(b) The IWW.
(c) The Spokane Police.
(d) The Coal Miner's Club.

14. What does Ursula tell Rye that Gig has told her he wants to do for him?
(a) Set Rye up in a book-binding business.
(b) Build a real home for them.
(c) Find a girl for Rye to marry.
(d) Buy him a ticket to Seattle.

15. What does Jules's mother say might get him killed one day?
(a) His skin color.
(b) His laugh.
(c) His hair.
(d) His shoes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is one labor leader Gurley is speaking with when Fred Moore brings him to meet her for the first time?

3. What is the last name of the ferryman that Jules takes for himself?

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

5. What is the IWW's nickname?

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