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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 Sam brag about being a part of?
(a) A gang of spies.
(b) The Portland Purge.
(c) A family of rioters.
(d) The Blood Thursday riot.

2. At the end of Chapter 10, who is beaten up by the vigilantes?
(a) Al.
(b) London.
(c) Dakin.
(d) Doc Burton.

3. What spaces themselves along the line of marchers at the train station?
(a) Party members.
(b) Political officials.
(c) Young kids.
(d) Deputies on motorcycles.

4. What are the squads of men being sent out to do?
(a) Kill non-Party members.
(b) Find strikebreakers.
(c) Mourn Joy.
(d) Raise funds for Joy's funeral.

5. What are the deputies on the road complaining about and might start shooting back at?
(a) Land mines.
(b) Rock throwers.
(c) Armored trucks.
(d) Picketers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mac think he should put Joy on public display during the funeral march?

2. Why is Lisa a little embarrassed when Jim stops to talk to her?

3. From whom does Jim claim he got his calm and cool demeanor?

4. At the end of Chapter 12, who takes over during London's speech as he stumbles over his words?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 13, how does Dick get the cows, the bull calf, and the lima beans?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mac decide against leaving Joy's coffin open during the funeral?

2. Why does Doc Burton make the remark about shooting Mac if he were the boss of the other side?

3. In Chapter 13, how does the reader see that there is a thin line between the migrant workers and the townspeople during the funeral march?

4. After Jim tells a group of men about Joy being a kind of labor leader, what do they say in return?

5. To whom does Jim attribute his cool demeanor when London praises him for it?

6. What does Mac want to happen again, similar to Burke's incident, that he believes will push the men forward?

7. What reasoning does Doc Burton give for why he is working so hard for the Party but is not a Party member?

8. Who is group man?

9. Why do Dakin and London send out squads of men at the beginning of Chapter 10?

10. What does Sam brag about to Jim when they go out in a group together?

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