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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ordinance does Mac predict the county will pass in the event of a strike?
(a) Separate but equal rights for pickers.
(b) Soliciting donations made illegal.
(c) Congregation made illegal.
(d) Picking made illegal.

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

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

4. What mysterious story from his childhood does Jim reminisce about in the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) A public hanging of a Party member.
(b) The raids on his neighbor's houses.
(c) His sister's disappearance in school.
(d) How the Party first came into existence.

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

6. Why do Harry and Jim decide that using Jim's real name will not be detrimental to Jim's relatives?
(a) Jim's name is common.
(b) They absolve all names once inducted into the Party.
(c) Jim does not have any living relatives.
(d) Identity is nonexistent within the Party.

7. At the end of Chapter 2, what does Mac make a speech about that explains why his mother's house was set on fire?
(a) She was discovered to be related to Mac.
(b) He was followed to his home one night.
(c) She was housing Party members.
(d) He made a speech about people starving.

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

9. What does Mac have the men do after the birth so that they can share in the experience and participate.
(a) Burn the birthing clothes.
(b) Take pictures.
(c) Document the birth in a journal.
(d) Gather blankets and pillows.

10. Who does Mac suggest for general chairman because he has a cooler head than London?
(a) Himself.
(b) Doc Burton.
(c) Dakin.
(d) Jim.

11. What does Jim decline to which Mac responds that Jim has no vices?
(a) A beer.
(b) A gun.
(c) A smoke.
(d) Cash.

12. At the beginning of Chapter 7, who is going to be romancing the female sympathizers?
(a) Mac.
(b) London.
(c) Jim.
(d) Dick.

13. 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) Soap-boxing to Jim.
(c) Not fighting the men.
(d) Bluffing to the men.

14. 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) His admittance to being a red.
(d) Mac's relatability.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jim think his mother died while he was in jail for a vagrancy charge?

2. Who do Mac and Jim convince Al of letting them meet while at his Lunch Wagon?

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

4. At the end of Chapter 1, what does Harry predict will happen to Jim?

5. For what reason does Mac want reassurance from Doc Burton that he has no civil or legal problems?

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