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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gemma remember Jules used to say about the two of them?

2. What refrain do the labor protesters keep saying during the police crackdown in Part I?

3. What is Rye's full name?

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

5. What words does Rye's lawyer use to get him out of jail but that sting Rye's ego?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jules hope for Rye after seeing him once while they are both in jail and Rye tells Jules he is sorry?

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

3. What is the last thing Waterbury thinks of before he dies, and why?

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

5. Why does Rye follow Gig to the labor protests in Part I even though Gig tells him not to?

6. How do Rye, Gig, Jules and the mystery person get away from the police when they are cornered?

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

8. What are the conditions in the jail that Rye and Gig are in like?

9. How does Walter describe Spokane in 1909?

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

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