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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. What is Ursula the Great's real name?
2. How much time does Fred Moore say the authorities are seeking to charge Gig with serving for his supposed crimes in Part II?
3. What is one reason Gemma probably does not want to make Jules's death a cause for the labor movement?
4. What does Brand call his own house?
5. What is the name of the club Ursula performs at that Brand owns?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ask Rye to join her as she fundraises for the labor movement?
2. What does the thief on the raft want Jules to think as he goes over the waterfall?
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. What happens to Jules when two men steal the raft of the ferryman Plante from him in 1864?
5. What does Jules's mother tell him might get him killed one day?
6. How does Walter describe Spokane in 1909?
7. Why does Rye follow Gig to the labor protests in Part I even though Gig tells him not to?
8. What is the true nature of Gemma's relationship with Jules, and why has she hidden this?
9. Who does Ursula take Rye to see, and why does she do this?
10. What kind of relationship does Ursula forge with First Ursula?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
How does Rye's first-person-narrated section at the very end of the novel change the way the reader feels about him? Why do you think Rye chose not to get more involved in activism following the advent of Gig's death, and instead chose a quiet life of steady hard work? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
How does Walter express, explain, and highlight the violence that beset labor activists in the early 1900s in America? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your arguments.
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