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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the police release Jules to the custody of Gemma in Part II?
(a) He has made bail.
(b) He is near death.
(c) Lemuel Brand secures his release.
(d) The judge lets him go.

2. What does Rye ask Ursula on their car ride in Chapter 13?
(a) Why she decided to come to Spokane in the first place.
(b) How she affords her fine coats and furs.
(c) How she learned to sing so well.
(d) How she manages to escape from the cougar every night.

3. Who does Jules's mother send him to live with three years before she dies?
(a) A good family friend.
(b) Her own father.
(c) A French ferryman.
(d) Her sister.

4. What mine does Brand know Rye's father worked at in Montana?
(a) Freshtown Highlight.
(b) Friendly Hills.
(c) Diamond Triangle.
(d) Golden Sunlight.

5. What does Rye tell Jules when he sees him once on the rockpile?
(a) He can get him out soon.
(b) He is sorry.
(c) He will get a message to Jules's daughter.
(d) He will get a message to Jules's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What deal does Ursula the Great make with Brand?

2. Who is one labor leader Gurley is speaking with when Fred Moore brings him to meet her for the first time?

3. How much money does Brand give Rye in Chapter 13?

4. What is Acting Police Chief Sullivan known for?

5. What is one word Fred Moore uses to describe Gurley to Rye?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jules hope for Rye after seeing him once while they are both in jail and Rye tells Jules he is sorry?

2. What does Ursula, Margaret Anne Burns, learn from the First Ursula, Edith?

3. What does the thief on the raft want Jules to think as he goes over the waterfall?

4. Why did Rye come West looking for Gig?

5. What is the true nature of Gemma's relationship with Jules, and why has she hidden this?

6. Who does Ursula take Rye to see, and why does she do this?

7. Why are Gig and Rye sleeping in a ballfield in Chapter 1?

8. What happens to Jules when two men steal the raft of the ferryman Plante from him in 1864?

9. What kind of relationship does Ursula forge with First Ursula?

10. Why does Rye follow Gig to the labor protests in Part I even though Gig tells him not to?

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