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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. How old is Gurley in Part II when Rye meets her?

2. Who is the lawyer who gets Rye out of jail?

3. What does Brand call his own house?

4. Who is one labor leader Gurley is speaking with when Fred Moore brings him to meet her for the first time?

5. What is Gig's prized possession in Part II?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Where does the IWW's nickname come from?

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

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

10. How does Walter describe Spokane in 1909?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

How does Walter explore the brutality of the white settlers' treatment of Native Americans in this novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your arguments.

Essay Topic 3

Which characters in the novel demonstrate expressions and feelings of empathy towards Gig and/or Rye? Which characters' actions were the most surprising to you as a reader? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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