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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lloyd tell Carrie about wealthy people?
(a) They say education and progress are the key to a good lfie for miners.
(b) He tells her he was wealthy once.
(c) They are stealing in order to become rich.
(d) They never help the poor.

2. What does Carrie notice during an outbreak of typhoid?
(a) The well in the town has been contaminated.
(b) There is no medicine for the miners.
(c) The cause is how the coal shacks are built.
(d) The miners go to work when sick and spread the disease.

3. What is Rondal's mother's goal for Kerwin?
(a) To keep him out of the mines.
(b) That he become a mining engineer.
(c) She has no goal for him.
(d) That he wait until he is eighteen before working in the mines.

4. To what does the word snake refer when Clabe uses it when pointing at his paycheck?
(a) It doesn't mean anything, it is a joke.
(b) It means he pays too much in taxes.
(c) It indicates he made no money.
(d) It shows him the up and downs of his piece work.

5. How does C.J.'s grandfather address him?
(a) By his nickname, CinJeff.
(b) By his initials.
(c) By his full name.
(d) He always calls him grandson.

6. How does Ermel's keeping his land affect his fortunes?
(a) It doesn't affect his fortunes.
(b) He becomes wealthy.
(c) He is poor as his land has no value.
(d) He is shunned by other families in the area so his business goes bankrupt.

7. What does Carrie's Aunt Becka say about her that upsets her?
(a) That she is unattractive.
(b) That she is clumsy.
(c) That she will have to marry soon.
(d) That she is slow.

8. For what does Rondal's mother want him in relation to Kerwin?
(a) To help her teach Kerwin run the family farm.
(b) To help Kerwin stay in school.
(c) To help her keep Kerwin from getting married to Pricie.
(d) To help her keep Kerwin out of the mines.

9. Where do most, or all, of Clabe's earnings go?
(a) To parents to pay their farm mortgage.
(b) To the hospital for medical expenses.
(c) To the company store for food.
(d) To his son's college fund.

10. What is C.J.'s relationship with his grandfather like?
(a) Distant he lives in another state.
(b) Confrontational.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Very close.

11. On what day of the week does Clabe get paid?
(a) Monday.
(b) Saturday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Friday.

12. With whom is Talcott in love?
(a) Doris Lightner.
(b) Pricie Justice.
(c) Carrie Bishop.
(d) Ruby Day.

13. Where does C.J. hear Rondal has now moved by the end of Chapter 10?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) St. Louis.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York.

14. Where do Clabe and his family live?
(a) In town in an apartment.
(b) In their family farmhouse.
(c) In a company shack.
(d) In a shanty town outside the city.

15. Where has Rondal moved?
(a) Nashville, Tennessee.
(b) Front Royal, Virginia.
(c) Ludlow, Colorado.
(d) DuBois, Pennsylvania.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lloyd get off the train when Carrie is taking him to the doctor?

2. What happens at the club one evening when they are debating the causes of World War I?

3. Why did Rosa cry as a child?

4. What does Miles tell Carrie about Lloyd?

5. Why does Lloyd Justice come to the clinic?

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