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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 far away do miners come in to support the marching workers?

2. How do the police and gun thugs protect themselves?

3. Why are Rondal, Carrie and Dr. Booker going where they are headed?

4. About what does Dr. Booker tell Carrie that she is right?

5. Where does Albion live near Homeplace?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Carrie doing in the hotel and what does she learn about the attacks on the miners? What does Rondal do?

2. What does Talcott tell Rondal about the men replacing Chafin's men, what does he ask Rondal and what does Rondal do? What happens to Rondal?

3. What do the mining companies do when their team is going to play Annadel and what is Annadel's response?

4. What happens to Rosa in Chapter 17?

5. How does Carrie see Rondal again?

6. What do Rondal and Carrie do when they reach Charleston and what does Talcott do about the union movement at that point?

7. What does C.J. think about the baseball teams the mining companies form and how is his mind changed?

8. What does Carrie do after Albion is killed?

9. How does Rondal change his methods and why does he change them?

10. How are Albion and Isom killed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are a number of interesting questions raised by Storming Heaven. Questions that Giardina may have wanted the readers to consider and think through carefully. Discuss the following:

1. What does the term "author agenda" mean?

2. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the author's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Giardina's probable agenda concerning that idea.

2. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?

3. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?

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

By the end of this book so many of the miners are dead and the union has still not been able to change most of the conditions.

1. Do you think this book ended with any shred of hope? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and Storming Heaven to support your answer.

2. If you had been a miner in this situation do you think you would try again? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and Storming Heaven to support your answer.

3. How do you think a person can have hope when time after time they keep getting ground down? Use examples from your own life and Storming Heaven to support your answer.

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