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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 much time does Fred Moore say the authorities are seeking to charge Gig with serving for his supposed crimes in Part II?
2. What emotion does Rye recognize on Fred Moore's face when he visits Rye's porch room at Mrs. Ricci's?
3. Where did the narrator of the section titled The Kid, 1864, ride out of with Bonin?
4. What refrain do the labor protesters keep saying during the police crackdown in Part I?
5. What does Rye tell Jules when he sees him once on the rockpile?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does the IWW's nickname come from?
2. Why are Gig and Rye sleeping in a ballfield in Chapter 1?
3. How do Rye, Gig, Jules and the mystery person get away from the police when they are cornered?
4. Why does Rye follow Gig to the labor protests in Part I even though Gig tells him not to?
5. Why did Rye come West looking for Gig?
6. What does the thief on the raft want Jules to think as he goes over the waterfall?
7. What is the true nature of Gemma's relationship with Jules, and why has she hidden this?
8. What does Ursula, Margaret Anne Burns, learn from the First Ursula, Edith?
9. How does Walter describe Spokane in 1909?
10. Why do the police let Jules out of jail and where does he go?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Why do you think Walter chooses to open the novel with the killing of Officer Waterbury, and what kind of tone does this action set for the rest of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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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