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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. Who stops Jim and Mac on their way back from Anderson's land?
(a) Police.
(b) Group of kids.
(c) Three vigilantes.
(d) Sympathizers.

2. 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) An easier life than that of non-Party members.
(d) Becoming a robot that is controlled by the Party.

3. What are Jim and Mac doing at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Picking cotton.
(b) Clearing fields.
(c) Fixing a wagon.
(d) Picking apples.

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

5. Who does Mac suggest for general chairman because he has a cooler head than London?
(a) Dakin.
(b) Doc Burton.
(c) Jim.
(d) Himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Mac and Jim convince Al of letting them meet while at his Lunch Wagon?

2. At the end of Chapter 1, what does Harry predict will happen to Jim?

3. How does Dan feel about the group of strikers and union about to form?

4. What does Mac lament doing after the men who try to steal their paper leave?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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