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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 are the only two punishments of the Party?
(a) Reprimand and expulsion.
(b) Physical punishment and solitary confinement.
(c) Hard labor and fines.
(d) Lecture and punishment.

2. To what does Mac compare Jim and his on-the-scene training?
(a) Wily foxes.
(b) Hunted prey.
(c) Observant owls.
(d) Hunting dogs.

3. What musical instrument is heard at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) A guitar.
(b) A drum.
(c) A violin.
(d) A harmonica.

4. For what does Harry express surprise concerning Jim's past?
(a) Jim's quick and sudden submission to the Party.
(b) Jim's quitting high school.
(c) Jim's connection to his father, a non-Party member.
(d) Jim's lack of connection to the Party thus far.

5. With what is Joy charged after making a speech on a street corner?
(a) Stabbing a cop in the shoulder with a pocketknife.
(b) Taking a cop hostage.
(c) Drunk and disorderly.
(d) Public disturbance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mac hope that a potential riot among the pickers could spread to?

2. What does Mac tell Jim that makes field work especially dangerous?

3. What ordinance does Mac predict the county will pass in the event of a strike?

4. What does Mac say that Dick is within the Party?

5. Who does Mac tell Jim not to bother trying to convert to the Party?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Mac want to make sure that Doc Burton has no legal or civil problems?

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

4. How does Mac convince Anderson to let them use his land as a camping ground for the strikers?

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

6. Why is Joy incarcerated in Chapter 3?

7. 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"?

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

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

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

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