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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is provided to the workers by the steel mill on election day?
(a) Free lunches.
(b) Time off to vote.
(c) Campaign handouts.
(d) Sample ballots.

2. In what state are Mike and Mary's finances at the end of Part 2, Chapter 10?
(a) They are able to buy stock.
(b) They are able to save money every week.
(c) They are able to invest in other property.
(d) They are using their savings.

3. Which candidate is Mike's choice in the election?
(a) Andrew Carnegie.
(b) Harry Bodnar.
(c) Harvey Drummond.
(d) Eugene Debs.

4. What is the purpose of the C.I.O.?
(a) Mediates with company executives.
(b) Finances union activities.
(c) Organizes strikes for workers.
(d) Organized industrial unions.

5. How does Dobie learn that there will be no steel mill strike?
(a) By a call from Flack.
(b) By a radio broadcast.
(c) From his neighbor.
(d) By the newspaper.

6. What are Mike and Mary missing at the end of Part 2, Chapter 10?
(a) Their families.
(b) The mill paycheck.
(c) The money from the boarding business.
(d) Their friends in Braddock.

7. Who is Mary baking a birthday cake for in Part 1, Chapter 5?
(a) George.
(b) Mike.
(c) Johnnie.
(d) Anna.

8. Why is Dobie against company unions?
(a) He feels that they prevent legitimate worker representation.
(b) He is against their violent tactics.
(c) He thinks that they are only political machines.
(d) He is not allowed to vote in their union elections.

9. At the beginning of Part 3, Chapter 1, what year is it?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1920.

10. What political party does Mike's candidate represent?
(a) Democrat.
(b) Socialist.
(c) Republican.
(d) Independent.

11. As Part 4, Chapter 1 begins, what character is now known as Dobie?
(a) Mikie.
(b) Joe.
(c) Johnnie.
(d) George.

12. At the beginning of Part 4, Chapter 11, what is happening to union membership?
(a) Union membership is abolished.
(b) Union membership is increasing.
(c) Union membership is neither increasing or decreasing.
(d) Union membership is decreasing.

13. Who has the union groups' charters revoked?
(a) Flack.
(b) A. F. I.
(c) Tighe.
(d) Amalgamated Steel Company.

14. Who is Agnes?
(a) A boarder.
(b) Mary's best friend.
(c) Mike and Mary's daughter.
(d) Mike's co-worker.

15. Who takes family pictures before Mikie leaves to catch a train back to New York?
(a) Dobie.
(b) Anna.
(c) Mikie.
(d) Julie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who watches Mary's children when Mary goes out to work?

2. What does Julie tell Dobie after George's funeral?

3. What happens to George that awakens Dobie and Julie in the middle of the night?

4. What happens to Mike after the election?

5. Who is George buried next to?

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