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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. Where does Gurley go after she is released from jail?
2. The doorman of which hotel shoves Rye and tells him to move on in Chapter 24?
3. What does Gurley say is the only thing she needs after being released from jail?
4. What newspaper does Gurley tell Rye that Olen edits in Chapter 16?
5. What kind of land was Taft built on?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Brand hire Dalveaux?
2. How does Rye feel about traveling with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn in Part III?
3. What does Rye buy with the twenty dollars from Brand, and why?
4. Who shows up in Rye's hotel room in Part III in Seattle, and what does this person want?
5. Who helps Rye get a job at the machinist's shop, and how does Rye feel about the job?
6. What does Gurley discover is going on in the jail when she spends the night there in Part IV?
7. Who does Gurley give money to on a whim in Seattle, and why does she do this?
8. What does Sullivan say to Gurley that cuts her emotionally when he interviews her in Part IV?
9. What does Gurley often tell people when they ask her what her husband thinks of her work?
10. Who does Rye see again in Seattle after Gurley's speech there to rally people to the labor movement's cause, and what does this person tell Rye?
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
Write an essay describing the relationship between the First Ursula (Edith) and Margaret Anne Burns, the Second Ursula, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
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