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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what subject does Jackie earn a degree?
(a) Law.
(b) Biology.
(c) Journalism.
(d) Art History.

2. What does the company in #134 plan to do in Homeplace?
(a) Reduce wages.
(b) Close the mines.
(c) Strip mine the area.
(d) Sell the mines.

3. Dillon vows to see Rachel ___________________.
(a) in heaven.
(b) in her dreams.
(c) every day.
(d) when she wakes up.

4. What does Jackie write editorials about during this period?
(a) The school levy.
(b) The new hospital.
(c) The presidential election.
(d) The coal miners strike.

5. Why does Rachel hire a cook and housekeeper?
(a) She wants to impress Dillon.
(b) She is too weak to do the work.
(c) She likes to employ local women.
(d) She thinks it makes her look high class.

6. Who has all the poverty money sent to him so that he can dole it out?
(a) Arthur Lee.
(b) Dillon.
(c) Jimmy.
(d) Sim.

7. Tom tells the bishop that he is a/an _________________ priest.
(a) competent.
(b) angry.
(c) terrible.
(d) lenient.

8. What happens when the dam begins to breach?
(a) Arthur Lee is swept away.
(b) Arthur Lee saves Dillon.
(c) Arthur Lee can't make it back to his car.
(d) Arthur Lee sounds the alarm.

9. Who is Lech Walesa?
(a) Polish Olympic skater.
(b) Polish astronaut.
(c) Polish band leader.
(d) Polish union leader.

10. At the picket line, someone puts up a sign that says ____________________.
(a) The South Will Rise Again.
(b) End of the Road.
(c) Dead End.
(d) Poland, West Virginia.

11. With whom does Brenda fall in love?
(a) Toejam.
(b) Toad.
(c) Toadstool.
(d) Tommie Boy.

12. Who is the first to arrive and the last to leave Rachel's funeral?
(a) Jackie.
(b) Tony.
(c) Arthur Lee.
(d) Dillon.

13. When Tom leaves, he tells Jackie that ______________________.
(a) he will be back tomorrow.
(b) he wants to marry her.
(c) he is never coming back.
(d) they aren't done yet.

14. What is carried in the doctor's container?
(a) Seed corn.
(b) A pair of black lungs.
(c) Soybeans.
(d) Bullets.

15. A doctor from which town comes looking for Dillon?
(a) Beckley.
(b) Butte.
(c) Bucyrus.
(d) Bexley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the person in #151 advise Jackie to leave the area?

2. A guard at a picket line tells Jackie to get away even though _____________________.

3. What happens to Tom that produces a fatal injury?

4. The way that the vine grows up the tree is in the shape of ____________________.

5. In what town does Jackie buy a house?

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