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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 do Jim and Mac catch a ride on at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) The subway.
(b) A cop car.
(c) A boat.
(d) A freight train.

2. Who does the orchard superintendent remind London is the judge?
(a) Hunter.
(b) Doc Burton.
(c) Gillray.
(d) Martin.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 7, what does Mac warn will happen if Anderson's farm is touched at all?

2. Who does London name as Doc Burton's right-hand-man?

3. Why is Dakin better off than most other migrant workers?

4. Who does Mac suggest for general chairman because he has a cooler head than London?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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"?

7. In Chapter 4, how is Mac's claim that the man who tries to scare you is usually scared of you an analogy to the strike?

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

9. Why is Joy incarcerated in Chapter 3?

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

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