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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What group of people does Dan reminisce about to Jim and Mac?
(a) Wobblies.
(b) The Growers' Association.
(c) Party members.
(d) Non-Party members.

4. What does Dakin predict the growers will bring in if the workers organize a strike?
(a) Scabs.
(b) Felons.
(c) Sympathizers.
(d) Homeless people.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Jim Nolan understand that his landlady will not do when he leaves the rooming house?

4. What does Jim report to the checker as the cause of the anger among strikers?

5. What does Mac tell Doc Burton about the strike situation?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2, Jim reminisces about mysterious happenings during his childhood; how did this, according to Jim, affect his mother?

2. Why does Mac say that if Lisa had died the birthing experience would still have been worthwhile?

3. Why, according to Mac at the end of Chapter 7, will the whole valley burn if Anderson's farm is touched?

4. Why does Mac have the clothes burned after helping Lisa give birth?

5. What does the orchard superintendent tell London to do?

6. Why does Jim not mind the hard work and life of Party members that Harry explains to him?

7. In Chapter 6, why does the checker offer Jim money in exchange for information? What information?

8. What is the specific situation that occurred that Mac recounts as the reason for why Joy is "screwy."

9. What are the sounds playing at the end of Chapter 6?

10. Why does Jim think his mother died?

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