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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 does Rondal do in his school work?

2. Why does Rondal think a union organizer is more important than a doctor?

3. What did Dr. Booker ask C.J. to do during a cholera epidemic?

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

5. What type of rifle does C.J. prefer?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dillon feel about what the coal companies are doing and what does he do in response to their actions?

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

3. How do the club members get out of jail?

4. What is the medical situation for black coal miners, how does Dr. Booker get medicine for a cholera epidemic and what does Booker show C.J. about black coal miners?

5. What does Rondal do on his first day in the mines and how does he feel at the end of the day?

6. What does C.J. realize about Rondal and what does he do about it? How does Rondal respond?

7. What does Miles tell his father is a good way to make money, what is his father's response and why did Miles end up feeling guilty about the whole idea?

8. What does Rondal think his father refers to when he talks about the snake and where does most of Clabe's earnings go?

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

10. What do Carrie and Lloyd do after having dinner at Miles' house, what does Lloyd tell Carrie the next day and what is her response?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. Compare/contrast Rowley Flint with Edgar Swift. How are they alike? How are they different? Are they sympathetic characters? Who would you most likely have as a friend? Why? Is each one believable? Why or why not.

2. Compare/contrast Rowley Flint with Karl Richter. How are they alike? How are they different? Are they sympathetic characters? Who would you most likely have as a friend? Why? Is each one believable? Why or why not.

3. Compare/contrast Mary as she seems early in the book and in her flashbacks to how Mary is by the end of the book. Is she the same? Different? Wiser? More or less daring? Is she likable? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

There is a growing gap between the positions of the two camps involved in the growing conflict - the miners and the Company's representatives.

1. Why do you think the mine owners are unwilling to listen to the miners?

2. Do you think the miners are demanding too much from the mine owners? Why or why not?

3. If you were a negotiator between these two groups how would you attempt to forge an agreement?

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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