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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 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.

2. What does Jim hear at the end of Chapter 6 before he falls asleep?
(a) Men conversing.
(b) An owl hooting.
(c) A baby crying.
(d) A rooster crowing.

3. What mysterious story from his childhood does Jim reminisce about in the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) His sister's disappearance in school.
(b) A public hanging of a Party member.
(c) How the Party first came into existence.
(d) The raids on his neighbor's houses.

4. What story does Joy recount to explain why his hands are crushed?
(a) He punched a non-Party member too hard.
(b) He tried to break into a non-Party member's home.
(c) Non-Party members rode over his hand with a horse.
(d) He fought off a police officer's dog.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mac think turned the deal with Al's father about using his land as a camping ground for the strikers?

2. With what is Joy charged after making a speech on a street corner?

3. What does Jim admit about the possibility of Lisa dying during the delivery process?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Joy incarcerated in Chapter 3?

2. Why does Jim think his mother died?

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

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

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

7. How does Dan break his hip?

8. 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"?

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

10. How does Mac use the analogy of running new hunting dogs with old timers with Jim?

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