- What is the point the author is trying to communicate?
- What historical period is he trying to describe? How accurate are his descriptions?
- Give one quotation from the book that you think would be important for a history student to pay attention to (at least one complete sentence that shows what he or she believed in or stood for) and explain what it means.
- Would you recommend that this book be required reading for a survey course in American history? Why or why not?
- If you could ask one question of the author (or of the main character in the story), what would it be and why? How do you think he/she would answer?