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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Acting Police Chief Sullivan known for?
(a) His baldness.
(b) His huge mustache.
(c) His bad hand.
(d) His broken and crooked leg.

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

4. Who does Gemma ask to go and fetch the coroner after Jules dies in her house?
(a) Rye.
(b) Gig.
(c) Her neighbors the Carvers' son.
(d) Her husband Dominick.

5. Where do Rye and Gig wake up in Chapter 1?
(a) The Salvation Army.
(b) A ballfield.
(c) A cold porch.
(d) Jail.

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

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

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

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

10. Why does Rye get out of jail earlier than most of the other men?
(a) Mrs. Ricci pulls some strings to get him out.
(b) He has the bail money.
(c) He is only 16.
(d) His other brother is a lawyer.

11. Why does Ursula urge Rye to take Brand's offer in Chapter 13?
(a) For himself.
(b) For Gig.
(c) For Early.
(d) For Gurley.

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

13. Who helps Jules and is kind to him in jail?
(a) Clegg.
(b) Sullivan.
(c) Halla.
(d) Henries.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who starts the wheels in motion that eventually end up in Rye getting released from prison?

2. What emotion does Rye recognize on Fred Moore's face when he visits Rye's porch room at Mrs. Ricci's?

3. What does Brand ask Rye when he visits Brand's house in Chapter 13?

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

5. What animal did First Ursula use in her original act?

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