In Dubious Battle Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 125 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

In Dubious Battle Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Jim and Mac doing at the beginning of Chapter 5?

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

3. Why are prices inflated at the company store?

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

5. How does London react to Mac's suggestion for someone else as general chairman?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why, according to Mac at the end of Chapter 7, will the whole valley burn if Anderson's farm is touched?

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

3. Why is Dakin afraid of being involved in the strike?

4. In Chapter 4, how is Mac's claim that the man who tries to scare you is usually scared of you an analogy to the strike?

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

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

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

8. What does the orchard superintendent tell London to do?

9. Why does Mac strategize about bringing a doctor onto the strikers' camping ground?

10. How does Mac convince Anderson to let them use his land as a camping ground for the strikers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout "In Dubious Battle," chapters are ended with either sounds or images that are significant to foreshadowing what will come. Pick one sound or image from one of the chapters and discuss at length how and why that image or sound is significant to the narrative. How does it end the chapter? What is the sound or image's context? Why that sound or image? How does the sound or image foreshadow the ensuing chapters? Use specific information from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Jim is the protagonist and the system is the antagonist. Support this statement with specific examples from the text that show this contrast and the nature of the relationship between the two.

Essay Topic 3

Jim's sudden death in Chapter 15 is shocking to the reader, who believes that it is Jim who will take over the cause because of his intelligence and calmness. However, would a living Jim be too dangerous for the cause? Mac once noted that he would hit Jim for being too smart and always right. Could this have been Jim's downfall had he lived and taken over the cause? Prove or disprove this statement with specific examples from the text to support your answer.

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