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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jim wonder that Dan should be doing instead of manual labor?
(a) Typist.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Union work.
(d) Working the charity system.

2. Who does Jim claim is his reason for wanting to join the Party?
(a) His father.
(b) No one.
(c) Harry.
(d) His mother.

3. Who does the checker try to bribe for information at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Jim.
(b) Mac.
(c) London.
(d) Dakin.

4. For what reason does Jim tell Harry that he was jailed for a vagrancy charge?
(a) He was suspected of being a radical leader.
(b) He had all of his belongings on him at the time.
(c) He was hanging out with homeless people.
(d) He was watching a radical's speech in the park.

5. Who does Mac tell Jim not to bother trying to convert to the Party?
(a) Dan.
(b) Dakin.
(c) London.
(d) Al.

6. Who does Mac suggest for general chairman because he has a cooler head than London?
(a) Jim.
(b) Dakin.
(c) Himself.
(d) Doc Burton.

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

8. How Jim describe his mother following her change in demeanor during his childhood?
(a) Sort of dead.
(b) Angry and mean.
(c) Weak in mind.
(d) Rigid and cold.

9. At the end of Chapter 2, what does Mac make a speech about that explains why his mother's house was set on fire?
(a) He made a speech about people starving.
(b) She was discovered to be related to Mac.
(c) He was followed to his home one night.
(d) She was housing Party members.

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

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

12. What does Jim decline to which Mac responds that Jim has no vices?
(a) Cash.
(b) A gun.
(c) A smoke.
(d) A beer.

13. What does Mac think turned the deal with Al's father about using his land as a camping ground for the strikers?
(a) The dogs.
(b) His admittance to being a red.
(c) Mac's relatability.
(d) Offering of money.

14. Who approaches Jim and Mac saying that the committee wants a report?
(a) The Growers' Association head.
(b) A private detective.
(c) A troupe of officers.
(d) The Valley men.

15. What does Jim see as the similarity between his father and Joy?
(a) They simply like to fight.
(b) They were both hit too many times in the head.
(c) They both understood what the Party needs.
(d) They were/are willing to die for the Party.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mac introduce to Jim as the bedroom radical at the house?

2. What does Jim hear at the end of Chapter 6 before he falls asleep?

3. What does Jim Nolan understand that his landlady will not do when he leaves the rooming house?

4. What does Mac claim will do Jim no good without on-the-scene training and experience?

5. What nickname does London give Mac that sticks?

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