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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. How does Dan feel about the group of strikers and union about to form?
(a) Does not care.
(b) Negative.
(c) Neutral.
(d) Positive.

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

4. What as Mac sent away for the previous night that he expects the next morning?
(a) Amunition.
(b) Posters.
(c) Guns.
(d) Stamps.

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

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

7. Who does the checker try to bribe for information at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Mac.
(b) Dakin.
(c) London.
(d) Jim.

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

9. What does Jim claim men can gain from doing such work that the Party has them do?
(a) Clear thinking.
(b) Rage.
(c) Motivation.
(d) Peacefulness.

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

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

12. For what reason does Mac want reassurance from Doc Burton that he has no civil or legal problems?
(a) Reputation.
(b) His financial welfare.
(c) His job.
(d) Vulnerability.

13. For what does Harry express surprise concerning Jim's past?
(a) Jim's quick and sudden submission to the Party.
(b) Jim's quitting high school.
(c) Jim's lack of connection to the Party thus far.
(d) Jim's connection to his father, a non-Party member.

14. What does Mac give to Joy so that he stops bothering Jim's typing?
(a) A documentary film on the Party.
(b) A copy of New Masses.
(c) A letter from his family.
(d) A book on political warfare.

15. What does Mac claim will do Jim no good without on-the-scene training and experience?
(a) Passion for the cause.
(b) Physical ability.
(c) All of the books he has read.
(d) Hatred for the rat race.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What names does London use to refer to Jim and Mac at the end of Chapter 5 when speaking with Dakin?

3. Why does Jim want to join the Party?

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

5. What does Harry Nilson have of Jim's when Jim reaches his office?

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