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

2. 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) Marco Ricci.
(c) Charlie Filigno.
(d) John Sullivan.

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

4. 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 marry her one day.
(c) That he would let her manage a hotel for him once she was done performing.
(d) That he would help her become a newspaper editor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was First Ursula's manager who fires her for getting too old?

2. Why does Rye get out of jail earlier than most of the other men?

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

4. Why does Ursula urge Rye to take Brand's offer in Chapter 13?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Gig and Rye sleeping in a ballfield in Chapter 1?

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

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

4. Why do the police let Jules out of jail and where does he go?

5. In Chapter 13, what does Rye say that elicits Fred Moore's sympathy at Mrs. Ricci's house?

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

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

8. What does Jules's mother tell him might get him killed one day?

9. Where does the IWW's nickname come from?

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

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