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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 suggest that Mac do for Joy's funeral in the morning?

2. After Dick believes he is spotted for vagrancy, who does he send for to replace him?

3. Why does Dakin lose his mind, bite a cop, and end up incarcerated?

4. What spaces themselves along the line of marchers at the train station?

5. What does Mac wish he could get for Doc Burton?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Doc Burton make the remark about shooting Mac if he were the boss of the other side?

5. Why do Dakin and London send out squads of men at the beginning of Chapter 10?

6. After Jim tells a group of men about Joy being a kind of labor leader, what do they say in return?

7. To whom does Jim attribute his cool demeanor when London praises him for it?

8. What reasoning does Doc Burton give for why he is working so hard for the Party but is not a Party member?

9. What happens towards the end of Chapter 9 that Mac is blamed for?

10. What does the false headline in the paper claim that infuriates Mac?

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

Violence plays a key role throughout "In Dubious Battle." Both sides of the strike employ violence, sometimes differently but, towards the end of the novel, quite similarly. Describe how both sides of the fight use violence and how their use of violence ultimately amounts to little. Cite specific examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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