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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. What does Harry Nilson have of Jim's when Jim reaches his office?

2. With what is Joy charged after making a speech on a street corner?

3. What does Harry do to show that he is considering Jim for Party membership?

4. What are the only two punishments of the Party?

5. Why does Jim want to join the Party?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Jim think his mother died?

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

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

5. In Chapter 4, how is Mac's claim that the man who tries to scare you is usually scared of you an analogy to the strike?

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

7. Why does Joy remind Jim of his father?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

When a rubber band is stretched, it reaches a point where it is stretched as far as it can go and can snap. Chapter 13 is the heightened action that Steinbeck uses all of the previous chapters to work towards. Winning or losing the strike will all depend on the actions of the following day in Chapter 14. Liken Chapter 13 to that of the stretched rubber band analogy and Chapter 14 as what will happen to the rubber band.

Essay Topic 3

Chapter 12 can be characterized almost completely by dry and depressing adjectives and images. How does the chapter begin and end? What images are presented to create this somber, depressing, hopeless tone? Scour through the chapter and pick out specific quotations that show how this tone is expressed by Steinbeck and then construct a well-written essay explaining why you think this chapter is characterized in such a way. What is going on at this point in the novel? Use specific information from the text to support your answer.

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