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

2. What is Acting Police Chief Sullivan known for?
(a) His broken and crooked leg.
(b) His huge mustache.
(c) His bad hand.
(d) His baldness.

3. What does Rye ask Brand if he has in his library?
(a) War and Peace.
(b) The Genial Man.
(c) A copy of the Bible.
(d) Plato's Ruminations.

4. What promise had Brand made First Ursula and then gone back on?
(a) That he would marry her one day.
(b) That he would help her become a newspaper editor.
(c) That he would set her up in an even bigger show.
(d) That he would let her manage a hotel for him once she was done performing.

5. Who is killed in the section titled Waterbury, 1909?
(a) A police officer named Waterbury.
(b) A business tycoon named Waterbury.
(c) A police officer named Clegg.
(d) A homeless person named Cruggs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Gemma ask to go and fetch the coroner after Jules dies in her house?

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

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

4. Who helps Jules and is kind to him in jail?

5. What does Jules's mother say might get him killed one day?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rye get arrested at the labor rally in Part I?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who does Ursula take Rye to see, and why does she do this?

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

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