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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where did the narrator of the section titled The Kid, 1864, ride out of with Bonin?
2. What is the name of the club Ursula performs at that Brand owns?
3. Who is Brand's driver and body man?
4. Who is the lawyer who gets Rye out of jail?
5. What surprises many of the men around Gurley about her current condition in Part II?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Rye get arrested at the labor rally in Part I?
2. Why does Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ask Rye to join her as she fundraises for the labor movement?
3. What does the thief on the raft want Jules to think as he goes over the waterfall?
4. What does Rye think of Lemuel Brand's house?
5. Why do the police come and start beating up the men on the ballfield in Part I?
6. Why are Gig and Rye sleeping in a ballfield in Chapter 1?
7. In Chapter 13, what does Rye say that elicits Fred Moore's sympathy at Mrs. Ricci's house?
8. Why does Rye follow Gig to the labor protests in Part I even though Gig tells him not to?
9. Who does Rye ask Fred Moore, his lawyer, to find after Rye gets out of jail, and what has happened to Gig?
10. What does Jules hope for Rye after seeing him once while they are both in jail and Rye tells Jules he is sorry?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Elizabeth Gurley Flynn win people to the cause of labor, and why do you think she is so beguiling even to people who are inclined to dislike her? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
What character traits, choices, and trade-offs do you think contribute to the most to the fact that Rye is one of the few main male characters in the book to live to an older age? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
What is the relationship between the police, the wealthy ruling classes and industrialists, and the labor activists? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
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