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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Brand tell Rye people like Gurley really only want?
(a) Chaos.
(b) A war.
(c) To write a book and reap the benefits.
(d) A truce.

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

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

4. 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) The home of the brave will be better soon.
(d) Man and worker are the same.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one word Fred Moore uses to describe Gurley to Rye?

2. Who is giving Gurley a particularly hard time about her work when Rye first meets her?

3. What is the name of the man who helps Gig and Rye escape the police?

4. 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?

5. How much time does Fred Moore say the authorities are seeking to charge Gig with serving for his supposed crimes in Part II?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the thief on the raft want Jules to think as he goes over the waterfall?

2. Why did Rye come West looking for Gig?

3. Why do the police come and start beating up the men on the ballfield in Part I?

4. What does Ursula, Margaret Anne Burns, learn from the First Ursula, Edith?

5. What is the true nature of Gemma's relationship with Jules, and why has she hidden this?

6. What kind of relationship does Ursula forge with First Ursula?

7. Who does Rye ask Fred Moore, his lawyer, to find after Rye gets out of jail, and what has happened to Gig?

8. Why does Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ask Rye to join her as she fundraises for the labor movement?

9. How does Rye eventually get out of jail earlier than expected?

10. What happens to Jules when two men steal the raft of the ferryman Plante from him in 1864?

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