The Cold Millions Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Jess Walter
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 148 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Cold Millions Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gig often call Rye as a term of affection?
(a) Runt.
(b) Ripper.
(c) Rye-boy.
(d) Riggley.

2. What does Rye ask Brand if he has in his library?
(a) Plato's Ruminations.
(b) The Genial Man.
(c) A copy of the Bible.
(d) War and Peace.

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

4. Who is killed in the section titled Waterbury, 1909?
(a) A police officer named Clegg.
(b) A business tycoon named Waterbury.
(c) A police officer named Waterbury.
(d) A homeless person named Cruggs.

5. Which of Rye's brothers was killed in a logging accident?
(a) Gig.
(b) Danny.
(c) Frank.
(d) Henry.

6. 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.

7. What is Rye's full name?
(a) Ryan Gigarow.
(b) Ryan Dolan.
(c) Raymond Gigerland.
(d) Ryan Haverford.

8. Who is one labor leader Gurley is speaking with when Fred Moore brings him to meet her for the first time?
(a) Jefferson Henries.
(b) John Sullivan.
(c) Marco Ricci.
(d) Charlie Filigno.

9. 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 set her up in an even bigger show.
(c) That he would marry her one day.
(d) That he would let her manage a hotel for him once she was done performing.

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

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

12. What deal does Ursula the Great make with Brand?
(a) She asks for part ownership in one of his mines.
(b) She negotiates for a percentage of the ticket sale profits.
(c) She buys a stake of ownership in one of his hotels.
(d) She makes him sign a document promising to marry her in five years.

13. What words does Rye's lawyer use to get him out of jail but that sting Rye's ego?
(a) Itinerant and wayward.
(b) Young and foolish.
(c) Tramp and heavy.
(d) Shiftless wastrel and poor indigent.

14. Who is the prosecutor in Rye's court appearance?
(a) Mr. Winstrel.
(b) Mr. Henries.
(c) Mr. Sullivan.
(d) Mr. Pugh.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is Gemma's husband?

4. Who does Jules's mother send him to live with three years before she dies?

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

(see the answer keys)

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