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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 think his mother died while he was in jail for a vagrancy charge?
(a) She thought the world was coming to an end.
(b) She wanted to die for the Party.
(c) She was killed by Party opposers.
(d) She simply did not want to live.

2. What does Jim decline to which Mac responds that Jim has no vices?
(a) Cash.
(b) A beer.
(c) A gun.
(d) A smoke.

3. What ordinance does Mac predict the county will pass in the event of a strike?
(a) Congregation made illegal.
(b) Picking made illegal.
(c) Soliciting donations made illegal.
(d) Separate but equal rights for pickers.

4. What does Mac say that Dick is within the Party?
(a) The Propagandist.
(b) The Instigator.
(c) The Don Juan.
(d) The Du Barry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the only two punishments of the Party?

2. What does Mac say is needed on the strikers' camping site in order to keep the camp legal?

3. At the end of Chapter 2, what does Mac make a speech about that explains why his mother's house was set on fire?

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

5. Who does the orchard superintendent remind London is the judge?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What reason does Jim give Harry wanting to join the Party?

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

5. Why does Jim think his mother died?

6. What are the sounds playing at the end of Chapter 6?

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

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

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

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

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