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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. Who does Mac introduce to Jim as the bedroom radical at the house?
(a) Harry.
(b) Joy.
(c) Dick.
(d) Himself.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Mac's dream about the the strike and causing a lot of fuss?

3. Who is having a baby in a nearby tent where the pickers are camped?

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

5. What story does Joy recount to explain why his hands are crushed?

(see the answer key)

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