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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. How does Harry describe the life of a Party member to Jim?

2. Who does Jim claim is his reason for wanting to join the Party?

3. Who approaches Jim and Mac saying that the committee wants a report?

4. What does Mac say that Dick is within the Party?

5. Why does Jim want to join the Party?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Joy remind Jim of his father?

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

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

5. What does the orchard superintendent tell London to do?

6. Why does Jim think his mother died?

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

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

9. In Chapter 6, why does the checker offer Jim money in exchange for information? What information?

10. What does Jim point out to Dakin when he says that he will pick cotton when all of the apples are picked?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jim's sudden death in Chapter 15 is shocking to the reader, who believes that it is Jim who will take over the cause because of his intelligence and calmness. However, would a living Jim be too dangerous for the cause? Mac once noted that he would hit Jim for being too smart and always right. Could this have been Jim's downfall had he lived and taken over the cause? Prove or disprove this statement with specific examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Jim and Doc Burton discuss religion in Chapter 11. Jim's devotion to the cause is almost a religious devotion which Doc Burton points out; however Jim recoils at the idea of religion. How are these two characters similar yet different? How does this conversation shed light on those similarities and differences? Write an essay that compares and contrasts Doc Burton and Jim, using the conversation in Chapter 11 as the anchor for the argument.

Essay Topic 3

Jim directs the sacrifice of the cows in Chapter 13. How does this sacrifice and the total transformation of the men into group man reinforce one another? Why and how does the sacrifice reinforce group man within the narrative? How has the tone among the men and within the camp transformed into something different at this point? Cite specific examples from the text to support your answer.

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