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

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

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

4. What animal did First Ursula use in her original act?
(a) A lion.
(b) An elephant.
(c) A bear.
(d) A tiger.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What surprises many of the men around Gurley about her current condition in Part II?

3. What is the name of the club Ursula performs at that Brand owns?

4. What is the first line of the song Rye picks up in the labor protest and sings himself?

5. What does Ursula tell Rye that Gig has told her he wants to do for him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why did Rye come West looking for Gig?

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

8. Where did Rye meet his old friend Jules?

9. What does Gemma tell Dominick Jules thought about burial practices when he was young?

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

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