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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 money does Bolin want to keep from the failed job for Dalveaux?
2. Where does the shopkeeper in Chapter 24 tell Rye he can buy a similar item that is cheaper than the one he buys at the fancy shop?
3. Why does Rye think Brand sends someone to Seattle to speak with him at first?
4. Who visits Rye in his hotel room in Part III, surprising him?
5. Who does Dalveaux kill randomly in Part III?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What does Ursula tell Gig about in the very end of Part IV?
3. Why do some people keep telling Elizabeth Gurley Flynn she should not be traveling around agitating for labor?
4. Why does Brand hire Dalveaux?
5. What does Rye buy with the twenty dollars from Brand, and why?
6. What does Ursula do for Gig in Part IV that surprises and delights Gig?
7. What does Sullivan say to Gurley that cuts her emotionally when he interviews her in Part IV?
8. What does Rye learn about Gig from the newspaper in Spokane early in Part IV?
9. What does Gurley discover is going on in the jail when she spends the night there in Part IV?
10. Why is Rye not at the union hall when it is raided and Charlie and Gurley are arrested in Part IV?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
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.
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