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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 is decided that needs to be done at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) They need to buy supplies.
(b) Joy must be freed from jail.
(c) The strikers need to be motivated.
(d) Jim needs to buy jeans.

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

3. Who does Mac tell Jim not to bother trying to convert to the Party?
(a) Al.
(b) Dakin.
(c) London.
(d) Dan.

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

5. What does Mac lament doing after the men who try to steal their paper leave?
(a) Not fighting the men.
(b) Bluffing to the men.
(c) Not trying to get the men to join the Party.
(d) Soap-boxing to Jim.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mac say has just happened to the pickers in Torgas Valley that could help incite a riot?

3. What nickname does London give Mac that sticks?

4. What does Mac admit to feeling good about at the end of Chapter 4?

5. What does Jim decline to which Mac responds that Jim has no vices?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jim point out to Dakin when he says that he will pick cotton when all of the apples are picked?

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

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

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

5. Why is Joy incarcerated in Chapter 3?

6. How does Mac explain the process of a strike to Jim?

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

8. In Chapter 5, what does Old Dan predict happening with the group of strikers in Torgas Valley? What does he mean by "water heaving before the boil"?

9. How does Dan break his hip?

10. Why does Al use his business and his father's land to explain why he does not want to join the cause?

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