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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What as Mac sent away for the previous night that he expects the next morning?
(a) Guns.
(b) Stamps.
(c) Posters.
(d) Amunition.

2. What does the orchard superintendent offer London in return for doing what he asks?
(a) A hefty severance sum.
(b) A steady job.
(c) Immunity.
(d) A political position.

3. What does Mac tell Dick to do to raise bail for Joy?
(a) Round up sympathizers.
(b) Ask for change on the street.
(c) Break into a local store.
(d) Open their safe with the secret stash of money.

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

5. Who do Mac and Jim convince Al of letting them meet while at his Lunch Wagon?
(a) Al's mother.
(b) Al's grandfather.
(c) Al's father.
(d) Al's uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mac say is needed on the strikers' camping site in order to keep the camp legal?

2. What does Mac tell Doc Burton about the strike situation?

3. Who does Mac suggest for general chairman because he has a cooler head than London?

4. How does Dan feel about the group of strikers and union about to form?

5. What does Jim wonder that Dan should be doing instead of manual labor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the situation in Torgas Valley with the Growers' Association and the pickers?

2. Why was Jim put in jail before coming to Harry?

3. How does Dan break his hip?

4. How does Mac explain the process of a strike to Jim?

5. In Chapter 5, what does Old Dan predict happening with the group of strikers in Torgas Valley? What does he mean by "water heaving before the boil"?

6. Why does Jim not mind the hard work and life of Party members that Harry explains to him?

7. What are the sounds playing at the end of Chapter 6?

8. Why is field work so dangerous, according to Mac?

9. Why is Joy incarcerated in Chapter 3?

10. In Chapter 2, Jim reminisces about mysterious happenings during his childhood; how did this, according to Jim, affect his mother?

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