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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Mike and Mary decide about their boarding business?
(a) To raise the rent.
(b) To end the business.
(c) To take in more boarders.
(d) To make no changes.

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

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

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

5. At the end of Part 2, Chapter 10, where are Mike and Mary living?
(a) In Washington.
(b) In Braddock.
(c) In New York.
(d) In White Haven.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who objects to Dobie's time being spent on a legitimate union?

2. What does Mike expect to happen after he votes?

3. Why is Dobie against company unions?

4. Who visits Mary and Mike in the spring?

5. In what state are Mike and Mary's finances at the end of Part 2, Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens with Dobie and Julie's financial situation as a result of no strike and an improving economy?

2. What happens to George at the end of Part 4, Chapter 10? Explain how this event's aftermath is so typical of George's behavior throughout the book.

3. At the end of Pat 2, Chapter 14, what happens after George goes out drinking the day before Anna's baby's christening?

4. What happens after the rank -and-file delegates meet from different lodges? What does the union do to help the bargaining committees? Why is the unions' stance unfair?

5. Describe Mary's life and her children's after Mike's death.

6. Where do Mike and Mary move to at the end of Part 2, Chapter 10? What do they have to do to get extra money now that there are no boarders?

7. At the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 6, what are Mike and Mary doing to make extra money? Who is giving them pointers?

8. What brings about labor problems at the mill? What does Johnny do as a result of the unrest?

9. What does the company remind the workers of during mid-term elections? What is the name of the candidate that Mike votes for in the election? What could happen as a result of Mike's choice?

10. At the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 11, what ongoing crisis is taking place in Mike and Mary's household? What do Mike and Mary not agree on as a resolution to their problem?

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