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

2. What does Mac say has just happened to the pickers in Torgas Valley that could help incite a riot?
(a) They have been given a pay cut by the Growers' Association.
(b) There have been mass layoffs.
(c) The pickers' leader has been incarcerated.
(d) The pickers have organized a coup.

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

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

5. Who does Mac introduce to Jim as the bedroom radical at the house?
(a) Dick.
(b) Joy.
(c) Himself.
(d) Harry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Jim and Mac catch a ride on at the beginning of Chapter 4?

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

3. What names does London use to refer to Jim and Mac at the end of Chapter 5 when speaking with Dakin?

4. What does Mac tell Doc Burton about the strike situation?

5. How many people own and oversee the Growers' Association?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Dan break his hip?

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

4. 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"?

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

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

7. Why does Jim think his mother died?

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

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

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

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