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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jim wonder that Dan should be doing instead of manual labor?
(a) Union work.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Typist.
(d) Working the charity system.

2. Why does Jim think his mother died while he was in jail for a vagrancy charge?
(a) She wanted to die for the Party.
(b) She thought the world was coming to an end.
(c) She simply did not want to live.
(d) She was killed by Party opposers.

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

4. What does Mac think turned the deal with Al's father about using his land as a camping ground for the strikers?
(a) The dogs.
(b) Offering of money.
(c) Mac's relatability.
(d) His admittance to being a red.

5. What does Jim report to the checker as the cause of the anger among strikers?
(a) Can of bad fish.
(b) A sack of rotten apples.
(c) Unsanitary conditions.
(d) Unfair wages.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is decided that needs to be done at the end of Chapter 3?

3. What does Dakin predict the growers will bring in if the workers organize a strike?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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