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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jim Nolan understand that his landlady will not do when he leaves the rooming house?
(a) Write him a good reference.
(b) Help him find a new apartment.
(c) Give him back his week's advance.
(d) Let him come back to the rooming house.

2. Why does Harry make a point of taking the paper with him when he takes Jim to the house?
(a) The cops go through the place regularly.
(b) He does not want anyone stealing his ideas.
(c) Someone will take the paper if he does not.
(d) He does not want Jim to read it.

3. What mysterious story from his childhood does Jim reminisce about in the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) The raids on his neighbor's houses.
(b) A public hanging of a Party member.
(c) How the Party first came into existence.
(d) His sister's disappearance in school.

4. What is decided that needs to be done at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) The strikers need to be motivated.
(b) Jim needs to buy jeans.
(c) They need to buy supplies.
(d) Joy must be freed from jail.

5. What is Mac's dream about the the strike and causing a lot of fuss?
(a) The strikers will start their own association.
(b) The Growers' Association will give in to their demands.
(c) The whole district is organized by spring.
(d) The Growers' Association will dissolve.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mac hope that a potential riot among the pickers could spread to?

2. Why does Jim think his mother died while he was in jail for a vagrancy charge?

3. What does Mac say has just happened to the pickers in Torgas Valley that could help incite a riot?

4. What does Mac tell Dick to do to raise bail for Joy?

5. For what reason does Jim tell Harry that he was jailed for a vagrancy charge?

(see the answer key)

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