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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 do the club members discover when they return to their office?

2. What do the men in the Annadel Political and Social Club begin to collect?

3. What does Lloyd tell Carrie about wealthy people?

4. What do the gun thugs do with Johnson?

5. How does C.J.'s grandfather address him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rondal's mother tell him when he goes to work for the mines and why does she change her mind?

2. What are the railroad companies doing to the farmers and how do the get it done?

3. What happens to Johnson and why does Rondal leave town?

4. What does Carrie figure out about a typhoid outbreak and what do the mining companies tell her when she tries to do something about it?

5. What happened with Rosa and a butterfly when she was young, what reminds her of that, why does she want to leave Mario and what did Mario do to Francesco?

6. What happens to C.J.'s grandfather, why is C.J. named what he is named? What happens to C.J.'s grandfather and then to C.J. and his grandmother?

7. Who is unhappy about Flora's wedding, why is she, what does she tell Flora and what is Carrie's response to that to Flora?

8. What is C.J. thinking about babies and what does he remember about a discussion he had with Dillon? What is Dillon making and why?

9. What does Miles find out about Lloyd, why does he leave Miles' mine and what does Carrie ask him before he leaves?

10. Why does Carrie learn to hunt, what does Miles' father want him to do after high school and what does he do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Plots are sometimes said to be either character-driven or action-driven. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think Storming Heaven is more character-driven or action-driven? Explain.

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

There are a number of themes in Storming Heaven. Discuss one of the following:

1. Choose two major themes and analyze them and discuss examples of where that theme appears in the text.

2. Compare and contrast two major themes in the novel to those themes found in other texts/movies with which you are familiar.

3. Other than class, which theme do you think is the major theme of the book? Discuss why and give example

Essay Topic 3

In a last burst of hope mixed with anger, the miners confront the army of guards. The miners lose. When two groups are opposed, the one that is most organized and structured ultimately wins.

1. Compare the situation of the miners with a situation in American history, for example the American Indians opposing the white man.

2. Do you believe the most powerful and organized always wins? Can the flea make the lion surrender? Why or why not?

3. How would this situation correlate with guerrilla warfare?

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