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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 punched a non-Party member too hard.
(c) He tried to break into a non-Party member's home.
(d) He fought off a police officer's dog.

2. What does Mac admit to Jim after delivering Lisa's baby?
(a) He saw how to deliver a baby once on TV.
(b) He was scared out of his mind.
(c) He never worked in a hospital.
(d) He did not know what he was doing.

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

4. Who does the orchard superintendent tell London to get rid of?
(a) Dakin and his truck.
(b) Mac and Jim.
(c) Doc Burton and Anderson.
(d) Jim and Dan.

5. What names does London use to refer to Jim and Mac at the end of Chapter 5 when speaking with Dakin?
(a) Revolutionaries.
(b) Rebels.
(c) Reds.
(d) Rioters.

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

7. What does Jim see as the similarity between his father and Joy?
(a) They simply like to fight.
(b) They were/are willing to die for the Party.
(c) They were both hit too many times in the head.
(d) They both understood what the Party needs.

8. What is projected that the county will do if the strikers begin to picket?
(a) Cave in to the strikers' demands.
(b) Throw everyone in jail.
(c) Bring in extra police.
(d) Pass an ordinance against gathering.

9. What does Jim tell Mac influenced him to join the Party?
(a) The numerous books he has read.
(b) The five men he met in jail.
(c) A distaste for ordinary, meaningless life.
(d) His father's meaningless death.

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

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

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 anyone stealing his ideas.
(b) Someone will take the paper if he does not.
(c) He does not want Jim to read it.
(d) The cops go through the place regularly.

13. What does Mac tell Doc Burton about the strike situation?
(a) They will need more than one doctor.
(b) It is the best situation he has seen in a long time.
(c) The strikers are guaranteed to prevail.
(d) It is a delicate situation and someone could get easily hurt.

14. What strategy does Mac use when thinking about striking?
(a) Guerilla tactics.
(b) The long view.
(c) Immediate and decisive.
(d) The band aid theory.

15. What does the orchard superintendent threaten to do if London does not comply?
(a) Banish them from the city.
(b) Blacklist them all.
(c) Jail them for life.
(d) Kill them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the orchard superintendent offer London in return for doing what he asks?

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

3. What as Mac sent away for the previous night that he expects the next morning?

4. Who does London name as Doc Burton's right-hand-man?

5. What musical instrument is heard at the end of Chapter 6?

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