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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Gig's and Rye's sister die?
(a) In childbirth.
(b) In a car accident.
(c) From tuberculosis.
(d) From polio.

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

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

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

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

6. What newspaper does Sullivan buy in Chapter 5?
(a) The Agitator.
(b) The Industrial Worker.
(c) The Spokane Daily Herald.
(d) The Workman's Day.

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

8. What is the true nature of Gemma's relationship with Jules?
(a) She is is niece.
(b) She is his ex-wife.
(c) She is his sister.
(d) She is his daughter.

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

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

11. What emotion does Rye recognize on Fred Moore's face when he visits Rye's porch room at Mrs. Ricci's?
(a) Anger.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Pity.
(d) Fear.

12. 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) Italian.
(b) French.
(c) Salish.
(d) Spanish.

13. What is one word Fred Moore uses to describe Gurley to Rye?
(a) Short-tempered.
(b) Sad.
(c) Redoubtale.
(d) Gregarious.

14. Who is giving Gurley a particularly hard time about her work when Rye first meets her?
(a) Mr. Filigno.
(b) Mr. Cawley.
(c) Mr. McLaggan.
(d) Mr. Moore.

15. What does the narrator of the section titled The Kid, 1864, think as he goes over the falls?
(a) He thinks of his wife.
(b) He thinks he will die painlessly.
(c) He thinks of his mother.
(d) He wants the kid on the shore to see him and take note of him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What deal does Ursula the Great make with Brand?

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

3. What is the IWW's nickname?

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

5. What does Gemma reply to her daughter's question asking if Indians can go to heaven?

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