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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jim hear at the end of Chapter 6 before he falls asleep?
(a) A rooster crowing.
(b) A baby crying.
(c) Men conversing.
(d) An owl hooting.

2. Who approaches Jim and Mac saying that the committee wants a report?
(a) The Valley men.
(b) The Growers' Association head.
(c) A private detective.
(d) A troupe of officers.

3. Who is having a baby in a nearby tent where the pickers are camped?
(a) Al's daughter.
(b) Al's girlfriend.
(c) London's daughter-in-law.
(d) London's daughter.

4. For what reason does Jim tell Harry that he was jailed for a vagrancy charge?
(a) He had all of his belongings on him at the time.
(b) He was hanging out with homeless people.
(c) He was suspected of being a radical leader.
(d) He was watching a radical's speech in the park.

5. Why are prices inflated at the company store?
(a) Depression.
(b) Economic crisis.
(c) Tax inflation.
(d) Lack of competition.

6. What does Mac lament doing after the men who try to steal their paper leave?
(a) Not trying to get the men to join the Party.
(b) Bluffing to the men.
(c) Soap-boxing to Jim.
(d) Not fighting the men.

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

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

9. To what does Mac compare Jim and his on-the-scene training?
(a) Observant owls.
(b) Hunting dogs.
(c) Wily foxes.
(d) Hunted prey.

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

11. What are Jim and Mac doing at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Picking cotton.
(b) Fixing a wagon.
(c) Picking apples.
(d) Clearing fields.

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

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

14. Where does Mac hope that a potential riot among the pickers could spread to?
(a) Trenton.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Torresdale.
(d) Tandale.

15. What does Harry Nilson have of Jim's when Jim reaches his office?
(a) Jim's dog.
(b) Jim's paycheks.
(c) Jim's belongings.
(d) Jim's application.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the orchard superintendent tell London to get rid of?

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

3. What does Mac tell Jim that makes field work especially dangerous?

4. What was Dan's occupation before becoming a migrant crop worker?

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

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