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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 one word Fred Moore uses to describe Gurley to Rye?

2. What is one language Jules speaks besides English?

3. Who is the prosecutor in Rye's court appearance?

4. What does Brand tell Rye people like Gurley really only want?

5. What does the stranger do to one of the police who are harassing Gig and Rye?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Walter describe Spokane in 1909?

3. What is the last thing Waterbury thinks of before he dies, and why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why did Rye come West looking for Gig?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the nuances and complexities of the character Del Dalveaux as Walter describes him? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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

Write an essay exploring the importance of newspapers to the labor activists' cause, and explain how Elizabeth Gurley Flynn uses the papers to rally supporters throughout the novel.

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