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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 London offer to give the men to eat at the end of Chapter 14?

2. Who directs the sacrifice of the cows?

3. From whom does Jim claim he got his calm and cool demeanor?

4. What is Mac worried about the morning following Joy's death?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 10, how do the men feel in the morning following Joy's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sam brag about to Jim when they go out in a group together?

2. What is the big mistake Mac claims that the vigilantes made in Chapter 9?

3. Who is group man?

4. Why does Mac put Doc Burton in a tent with ten armed guards to protect him?

5. What happens to London when an outside agitator tries to turn the crowd against him?

6. What does Doc Burton admire about Mac's speech during Joy's funeral?

7. What happens after Sam burns Hunter's house as retaliation for the vigilantes burning Anderson's farm.

8. What does the paper say about the strikers at the beginning of Chapter 14?

9. Why is Dan appearing to be losing his mind when Jim goes to speak with him?

10. Why does Mac decide against leaving Joy's coffin open during the funeral?

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

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

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.

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