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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 does Gurley buy Rye to celebrate his birthday?
2. Who tells Del Dalveaux that the assassination did not come off?
3. Who does Rye see that he thinks is threatening when he leaves the union hall in Chapter 24?
4. What does Gurley tell Fred Moore to do with her bail money?
5. Who kills Del Dalveaux?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Rye worried about Gig after Gig gets out of prison?
2. What does Al Bolin tell Dalveaux in Part III that actually hurts his feelings?
3. What does Rye bring home for Gig one night in Part IV that he thinks Gig will love, but that only seems to make Gig more upset?
4. What does Al Bolin end up doing to Gurley and Rye?
5. What does Rye buy with the twenty dollars from Brand, and why?
6. What does Brand ask Rye to do for him in Part IV when he has Willard take Rye to his house?
7. What does Gurley do for Rye on his birthday?
8. Why does Brand hire Dalveaux?
9. What does Reston do to Dalveaux in Part III and why?
10. What does Rye learn about Gig from the newspaper in Spokane early in Part IV?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is Gig changed after his experience in jail and through participating in the hunger strike, and how does the experience change his relationship with his brother Rye? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
Why do you think Walter chose to write this novel from many different first-person perspectives - Gig's, Ursula's, Dalveaux's, Gurley's, and, finally, Rye's - and what effect does this choice have on the reader's experience? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
What does Al Bolin's betrayal and Dalveaux's treatment of him after the failed assassination plot say about the morals and conventions of the time and place? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
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