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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Mac hope that a potential riot among the pickers could spread to?
(a) Trenton.
(b) Tandale.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Torresdale.

2. Why does Harry make a point of taking the paper with him when he takes Jim to the house?
(a) He does not want Jim to read it.
(b) The cops go through the place regularly.
(c) He does not want anyone stealing his ideas.
(d) Someone will take the paper if he does not.

3. What does Harry do to show that he is considering Jim for Party membership?
(a) Folds the corner of Jim's application.
(b) Folds the application into an envelope.
(c) Puts Jim's application in an acceptance file.
(d) Signs his name on Jim's application.

4. What mysterious story from his childhood does Jim reminisce about in the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) How the Party first came into existence.
(b) A public hanging of a Party member.
(c) His sister's disappearance in school.
(d) The raids on his neighbor's houses.

5. What does Mac tell Jim that makes field work especially dangerous?
(a) Enraged policemen.
(b) American Legionnaires.
(c) Tear gas.
(d) The use of automatic weapons.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is Joy charged after making a speech on a street corner?

2. For what reason does Jim tell Harry that he was jailed for a vagrancy charge?

3. How does Harry describe the life of a Party member to Jim?

4. What are the only two punishments of the Party?

5. What does Mac give to Joy so that he stops bothering Jim's typing?

(see the answer key)

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