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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Mac's dream about the the strike and causing a lot of fuss?
(a) The Growers' Association will give in to their demands.
(b) The strikers will start their own association.
(c) The Growers' Association will dissolve.
(d) The whole district is organized by spring.

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

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

5. What does Jim claim men can gain from doing such work that the Party has them do?
(a) Clear thinking.
(b) Rage.
(c) Peacefulness.
(d) Motivation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mysterious story from his childhood does Jim reminisce about in the beginning of Chapter 2?

2. What ordinance does Mac predict the county will pass in the event of a strike?

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

4. Why do Harry and Jim decide that using Jim's real name will not be detrimental to Jim's relatives?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 3, what does Jim believe Mac will spend the twenty dollars on that Dick brings home?

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