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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 Al express concern about while Jim and Mac eat at his Lunch Wagon?
(a) Purges within the Party.
(b) His father's crop.
(c) The impending strike.
(d) Losing customers.

2. What does Mac think turned the deal with Al's father about using his land as a camping ground for the strikers?
(a) His admittance to being a red.
(b) Offering of money.
(c) Mac's relatability.
(d) The dogs.

3. What does Mac claim will do Jim no good without on-the-scene training and experience?
(a) All of the books he has read.
(b) Passion for the cause.
(c) Physical ability.
(d) Hatred for the rat race.

4. Why is Dakin better off than most other migrant workers?
(a) His wife comes from a wealthy family.
(b) He works both sides.
(c) He does delivery work.
(d) He pays dues to the Valley men.

5. What does Mac have the men do after the birth so that they can share in the experience and participate.
(a) Take pictures.
(b) Document the birth in a journal.
(c) Gather blankets and pillows.
(d) Burn the birthing clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mac admit to Jim after delivering Lisa's baby?

2. What is Mac's dream about the the strike and causing a lot of fuss?

3. What does Jim reminisce about from his childhood while watching the countryside go by?

4. Who does Mac introduce to Jim as the bedroom radical at the house?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Joy remind Jim of his father?

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

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

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

7. Why does Mac strategize about bringing a doctor onto the strikers' camping ground?

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

9. Why is Joy incarcerated in Chapter 3?

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

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