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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the only two punishments of the Party?
(a) Physical punishment and solitary confinement.
(b) Lecture and punishment.
(c) Reprimand and expulsion.
(d) Hard labor and fines.

2. How does Harry describe the life of a Party member to Jim?
(a) Becoming a robot that is controlled by the Party.
(b) An unparalleled and enoyable existence.
(c) A life of hard work and poverty.
(d) An easier life than that of non-Party members.

3. What story does Joy recount to explain why his hands are crushed?
(a) He punched a non-Party member too hard.
(b) He fought off a police officer's dog.
(c) He tried to break into a non-Party member's home.
(d) Non-Party members rode over his hand with a horse.

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

5. Why does Jim want to join the Party?
(a) He wants a new start, different from everything.
(b) He wants to avenge his father and mother's deaths.
(c) He wants to infiltrate the Party and destroy it.
(d) He wants to eventually gain control of the Party.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the end of Chapter 2, what does Mac make a speech about that explains why his mother's house was set on fire?

3. Who does Jim claim is his reason for wanting to join the Party?

4. How Jim describe his mother following her change in demeanor during his childhood?

5. Where does Mac hope that a potential riot among the pickers could spread to?

(see the answer key)

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