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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 does Cynthia cite as making up half of her job as floor manager at Olstead's?
(a) Maintaining the machines.
(b) Schmoozing with the bosses.
(c) Yelling at people.
(d) Looking busy.

2. Who comforts Tracey when she fights back tears at the news of Olstead's demands?
(a) Stan.
(b) Jessie.
(c) Chris.
(d) Jason.

3. What does Tracey say Cynthia can tell the managers she will do before she lets them take her life away?
(a) Shoot up the factory.
(b) Kill herself.
(c) Move away.
(d) Burn the factory down.

4. When, if at all, does Tracey say she wants the money back she has just given Jason?
(a) She says he does not need to repay her.
(b) The next month.
(c) The next week.
(d) The next day.

5. What does Cynthia tell Tracey to do if she has a problem with Cynthia?
(a) Tell her.
(b) Complain to the boss.
(c) Stop hanging out with her.
(d) Consider them to be strangers from now on.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Cynthia recalls how Jessie had looked when they first met, what folk singer does she say Jessie looked like?

2. When Cynthia asks Tracey where she heard that Olstead would be engaging in lay-offs, where does Tracey say she heard the news?

3. What item of her grandfather's does Tracey say is still in her locker at Olstead's?

4. To what kind of vote is Cynthia referring when she tells the factory floor workers that they need to decide what to do soon because the vote is coming?

5. In addition to some supermarket vouchers, what else does Tracey say they had offered her at the union office when she went in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cynthia say is the only upside of the trouble at Olstead's during the labor dispute?

2. What is significant about Brucie giving Chris back his $10 once he hears of the trouble at the factory?

3. What reasons does Brucie give Chris when he gives him the advice to take the small concessions offered by Olstead's?

4. How does the playwright reveal to the audience how serious Jessie had been about her plans to travel the world before she had taken a job at Olstead's at age 18?

5. What does Tracey mean when she says that Oscar does not know her during their conversation outside the bar?

6. To what circumstances is Jason referring when he asks Tracey, "How the fuck did this happen?" (66)?

7. How does the playwright demonstrate through Brucie's struggle that people in town look out for one another?

8. After the factory lock-out, what hypothesis does Cynthia share with Stan about why she may have been hired in the first place?

9. How does the mood of Jessie's birthday party change when Tracey arrives?

10. What emotion does Cynthia express to Chris that she has been feeling since his incarceration?

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