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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 Mac tell Doc Burton about the strike situation?
2. Why is Dakin better off than most other migrant workers?
3. Who does Mac tell Jim not to bother trying to convert to the Party?
4. What does Harry do to show that he is considering Jim for Party membership?
5. At the beginning of Chapter 3, what does Jim believe Mac will spend the twenty dollars on that Dick brings home?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Mac explain the process of a strike to Jim?
2. Why does Al use his business and his father's land to explain why he does not want to join the cause?
3. What are the sounds playing at the end of Chapter 6?
4. Why is Joy incarcerated in Chapter 3?
5. Why does Joy remind Jim of his father?
6. Why does Jim not mind the hard work and life of Party members that Harry explains to him?
7. What is the situation in Torgas Valley with the Growers' Association and the pickers?
8. In Chapter 5, what does Old Dan predict happening with the group of strikers in Torgas Valley? What does he mean by "water heaving before the boil"?
9. How does Mac convince Anderson to let them use his land as a camping ground for the strikers?
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
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 2
Anderson's barn is burned in Chapter 13, which creates a turning point within the narrative. Mac warned earlier on in the novel that if the Anderson's farm was touched, the entire Valley will burn. How does this prediction come to fruition? How is the barn the turning point in the novel as predicted? Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Mac states that he uses whatever materials are at hand to accomplish a goal. How does the birthing scene in Chapter 4 exemplify this statement he makes? What is his main goal and how is the birthing scene a foreshadowing of what is to come? Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.
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