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

2. At the end of Chapter 1, what does Harry predict will happen to Jim?
(a) Jim will take over the Party.
(b) Jim will lose his hatred.
(c) Jim will not enjoy the Party.
(d) Jim will die for the Party.

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

4. What does Jim report to the checker as the cause of the anger among strikers?
(a) Unsanitary conditions.
(b) Unfair wages.
(c) A sack of rotten apples.
(d) Can of bad fish.

5. What is projected that the county will do if the strikers begin to picket?
(a) Bring in extra police.
(b) Throw everyone in jail.
(c) Cave in to the strikers' demands.
(d) Pass an ordinance against gathering.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group of people does Dan reminisce about to Jim and Mac?

2. What is decided that needs to be done at the end of Chapter 3?

3. Who is having a baby in a nearby tent where the pickers are camped?

4. For what does Harry express surprise concerning Jim's past?

5. Who does the checker try to bribe for information at the beginning of Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

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

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

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

5. Why does Joy remind Jim of his father?

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

7. Why is Dakin afraid of being involved in the strike?

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

9. What is the situation in Torgas Valley with the Growers' Association and the pickers?

10. Why does Mac strategize about bringing a doctor onto the strikers' camping ground?

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