View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do Mac and Jim convince Al of letting them meet while at his Lunch Wagon?
(a) Al's grandfather.
(b) Al's mother.
(c) Al's father.
(d) Al's uncle.

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

3. Who does London name as Doc Burton's right-hand-man?
(a) Mac.
(b) Sam.
(c) Jim.
(d) Dakin.

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

5. Who does the orchard superintendent remind London is the judge?
(a) Hunter.
(b) Gillray.
(c) Martin.
(d) Doc Burton.

6. What musical instrument is heard at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) A guitar.
(b) A drum.
(c) A harmonica.
(d) A violin.

7. At the beginning of Chapter 3, what does Jim believe Mac will spend the twenty dollars on that Dick brings home?
(a) Guns.
(b) Food.
(c) Envelopes.
(d) Stamps.

8. Who stops Jim and Mac on their way back from Anderson's land?
(a) Police.
(b) Three vigilantes.
(c) Group of kids.
(d) Sympathizers.

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

10. What does Mac say has just happened to the pickers in Torgas Valley that could help incite a riot?
(a) The pickers' leader has been incarcerated.
(b) They have been given a pay cut by the Growers' Association.
(c) There have been mass layoffs.
(d) The pickers have organized a coup.

11. 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) Mac's relatability.
(d) Offering of money.

12. 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.

13. What does Mac admit to feeling good about at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Keeping the mother alive.
(b) Sterilizing the pocketknife.
(c) Getting the men to work together.
(d) Delivering the baby successfully.

14. What does Mac tell Dick to do to raise bail for Joy?
(a) Break into a local store.
(b) Round up sympathizers.
(c) Ask for change on the street.
(d) Open their safe with the secret stash of money.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Mac hope that a potential riot among the pickers could spread to?

3. What does Mac claim will do Jim no good without on-the-scene training and experience?

4. What does Al express concern about while Jim and Mac eat at his Lunch Wagon?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 523 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample