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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Mac compare Jim and his on-the-scene training?

2. Who does the orchard superintendent tell London to get rid of?

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

4. What story does Joy recount to explain why his hands are crushed?

5. Who organizes the men on Anderson's farm land?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Al use his business and his father's land to explain why he does not want to join the cause?

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

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

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

5. What is the situation in Torgas Valley with the Growers' Association and the pickers?

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

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

8. Why does Joy remind Jim of his father?

9. What reason does Jim give Harry wanting to join the Party?

10. Why is field work so dangerous, according to Mac?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is group man? How is it its own character although it is a collective of people? How is group man different from the individual? How does the collective become an additional danger to the outside dangers already present to the men? Cite specific examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Mac claims several times that blood spillage is good for the cause. Is he a sympathetic or unsympathetic character because of this frame of thinking? Why or why not? Support your answer with specific information from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Is Dakin a likable character? Can the reader trust him? What sets him apart from the other men? What is it about Dakin that the reader is not fully convinced about? Write an essay that supports these claims and also shows how these suspicions about Dakin can foreshadow his eventual downfall.

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