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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. Where does Rye buy something in Chapter 24?
2. What does Gurley tell Reston and Rye about meeting Al Bolin?
3. Who comes to collect Rye to take him to Brand's?
4. What does Rye figure out from his visit to Brand in Chapter 24?
5. How does Dalveaux die?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who does Rye see again in Seattle after Gurley's speech there to rally people to the labor movement's cause, and what does this person tell Rye?
2. Why is Rye not at the union hall when it is raided and Charlie and Gurley are arrested in Part IV?
3. Who shows up in Rye's hotel room in Part III in Seattle, and what does this person want?
4. What does Ursula tell Gig about in the very end of Part IV?
5. What does Gurley often tell people when they ask her what her husband thinks of her work?
6. What does Brand ask Rye to do for him in Part IV when he has Willard take Rye to his house?
7. What does Al Bolin end up doing to Gurley and Rye?
8. How does Rye feel about traveling with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn in Part III?
9. How does the shopkeeper Bradley and Graham's treat Rye when he comes in in Part IV?
10. How does Gurley save herself and Rye in Taft?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why do you think Walter chooses to open the novel with the killing of Officer Waterbury, and what kind of tone does this action set for the rest of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
What does Al Bolin's betrayal and Dalveaux's treatment of him after the failed assassination plot say about the morals and conventions of the time and place? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
What is the relationship between the police, the wealthy ruling classes and industrialists, and the labor activists? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
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