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

2. What does Jim decline to which Mac responds that Jim has no vices?

3. What does Mac tell Doc Burton about the strike situation?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the specific situation that occurred that Mac recounts as the reason for why Joy is "screwy."

3. How does Mac use the analogy of running new hunting dogs with old timers with Jim?

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

5. Why does Jim think his mother died?

6. In Chapter 2, Jim reminisces about mysterious happenings during his childhood; how did this, according to Jim, affect his mother?

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

8. Why was Jim put in jail before coming to Harry?

9. Why is Joy incarcerated in Chapter 3?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Jim is the protagonist and the system is the antagonist. Support this statement with specific examples from the text that show this contrast and the nature of the relationship between the two.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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