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

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

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

4. 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 infant son.
(d) He thinks about his late mother.

5. What does Rye ask Ursula on their car ride in Chapter 13?
(a) How she learned to sing so well.
(b) How she manages to escape from the cougar every night.
(c) Why she decided to come to Spokane in the first place.
(d) How she affords her fine coats and furs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did tramps traveling in Spokane know it?

2. What is Ursula the Great's real name?

3. How much money does Brand give Rye in Chapter 13?

4. What does Gig often call Rye as a term of affection?

5. What is one reason Gemma probably does not want to make Jules's death a cause for the labor movement?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Rye meet his old friend Jules?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Rye think of Lemuel Brand's house?

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

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

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

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