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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 sends out the squads of men the morning following Joy's death?
(a) London and Mac.
(b) Mac and Jim.
(c) Dakin and London.
(d) Dakin and Jim.

2. What is in London's tent when he invites Mac and Jim inside?
(a) Raw meat.
(b) Stacks of bananas.
(c) Canned peaches.
(d) Canned sardines.

3. What does Mac wish he could get for Doc Burton?
(a) More armed guards.
(b) Money.
(c) More disinfectant.
(d) A woman.

4. Who leaves the camp to go sleep in the hospital?
(a) London.
(b) Mrs. Dakin.
(c) Anderson.
(d) London's daughter-in-law.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does London offer to give the men to eat at the end of Chapter 14?

3. Why does Mac want to bring Joy's body back to the strikers' camp?

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

5. What does Doc Burton describe as taking over during mob action?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mac warn Bolter about when Bolter accuses him of being sent by Red headquarters?

2. Why does Mac put Doc Burton in a tent with ten armed guards to protect him?

3. Who is group man?

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

5. Why does Doc Burton feel sorry for Anderson in Chapter 11?

6. 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?

7. How does Joy's death in Chapter 9 solidify the men in their cause?

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

9. What does the paper say about the strikers at the beginning of Chapter 14?

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

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