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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How will Mac get early warning that the scabs have arrived in town?
(a) He has spies on the train.
(b) He has microphones on the train.
(c) He keeps a cell phone on him.
(d) His people check employment agencies.

2. What does Mac mention to the men who want to steal their paper in order to intimidate them?
(a) Rosanna Fights Stadium.
(b) The Growers' Association.
(c) The Party.
(d) The Tandale strike.

3. What does Jim Nolan understand that his landlady will not do when he leaves the rooming house?
(a) Give him back his week's advance.
(b) Let him come back to the rooming house.
(c) Help him find a new apartment.
(d) Write him a good reference.

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

5. What does Al express concern about while Jim and Mac eat at his Lunch Wagon?
(a) Purges within the Party.
(b) Losing customers.
(c) His father's crop.
(d) The impending strike.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mac say has just happened to the pickers in Torgas Valley that could help incite a riot?

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

4. What strategy does Mac use when thinking about striking?

5. What does Mac say is needed on the strikers' camping site in order to keep the camp legal?

(see the answer key)

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