Section II: Short Answer  Answer in 3–5 sentences. Each question is worth 5 points. Identify two specific risks characters take during the strike and discuss why these risks are historically significant.

What motivates Rosa to stand up during the strike despite her young age?

Analytical / Essay-Style  Discuss how the Lawrence strike in the novel reflects the broader national tensions between labor and industry leading up to WWI. Include at least one example of governmental or corporate response.

What role do children play in the novel’s depiction of industrial America?

Analytical / Essay-Style  Choose one secondary character and explain how their experiences or perspective illuminates historical realities of immigration, labor, or social reform.

How does Jake change over the course of the novel?

The term “Bread and Roses” symbolizes:

A weed that exhibits resistance to an herbicide _________.

Which of the following best explains how five species of warblers (studied by Robert MacArthur) were capable of coexisting in the same trees in the same forests:

Above is the Lotka-Volterra equation that we discussed in class. In the table below match the portion of the Lotka-Volterra equation with the best description of that portion of the equation on the right.  *formatting was not possible in the list below. Refer to the formatting (subscripts Greek letters etc.) in the formula above.