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

2. How does Harry describe the life of a Party member to Jim?
(a) A life of hard work and poverty.
(b) Becoming a robot that is controlled by the Party.
(c) An unparalleled and enoyable existence.
(d) An easier life than that of non-Party members.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jim want to join the Party?

2. What does the orchard superintendent threaten to do if London does not comply?

3. To what does Mac compare Jim and his on-the-scene training?

4. What does Jim hear at the end of Chapter 6 before he falls asleep?

5. Who does Mac introduce to Jim as the bedroom radical at the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dan break his hip?

2. 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"?

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 say that if Lisa had died the birthing experience would still have been worthwhile?

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

6. Why is Joy incarcerated in Chapter 3?

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

8. Why was Jim put in jail before coming to Harry?

9. In Chapter 7, why does Mac need Doc Burton to come and stay on the campsite with the strikers?

10. Why is field work so dangerous, according to Mac?

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