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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 Gig's disposition after being released from jail?
2. How do the saloon girls protect Gurley during her night in jail?
3. What does Bolin tell Dalveaux after Dalveaux humiliates him?
4. What story does Gurley tell Rye when he asks her if she is okay after the robbing in Taft?
5. How much does Gurley raise in Seattle for the IWW?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Reston do to Dalveaux in Part III and why?
2. What does Sullivan say to Gurley that cuts her emotionally when he interviews her in Part IV?
3. What does Al Bolin tell Dalveaux in Part III that actually hurts his feelings?
4. What does Ursula tell Gig about in the very end of Part IV?
5. How does Gurley react when she finally finds out Rye has double-crossed her?
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 discover is going on in the jail when she spends the night there in Part IV?
8. Who shows up in Rye's hotel room in Part III in Seattle, and what does this person want?
9. What does Gurley often tell people when they ask her what her husband thinks of her work?
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 does Rye's first-person-narrated section at the very end of the novel change the way the reader feels about him? Why do you think Rye chose not to get more involved in activism following the advent of Gig's death, and instead chose a quiet life of steady hard work? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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