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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jim report to the checker as the cause of the anger among strikers?
(a) Unsanitary conditions.
(b) Unfair wages.
(c) Can of bad fish.
(d) A sack of rotten apples.

2. What does Jim tell Mac influenced him to join the Party?
(a) A distaste for ordinary, meaningless life.
(b) The numerous books he has read.
(c) The five men he met in jail.
(d) His father's meaningless death.

3. Who does Mac introduce to Jim as the bedroom radical at the house?
(a) Himself.
(b) Dick.
(c) Harry.
(d) Joy.

4. Why does Jim want to join the Party?
(a) He wants to avenge his father and mother's deaths.
(b) He wants to eventually gain control of the Party.
(c) He wants to infiltrate the Party and destroy it.
(d) He wants a new start, different from everything.

5. What are the only two punishments of the Party?
(a) Lecture and punishment.
(b) Hard labor and fines.
(c) Reprimand and expulsion.
(d) Physical punishment and solitary confinement.

6. At the end of Chapter 1, what does Harry predict will happen to Jim?
(a) Jim will lose his hatred.
(b) Jim will die for the Party.
(c) Jim will not enjoy the Party.
(d) Jim will take over the Party.

7. Where does Mac hope that a potential riot among the pickers could spread to?
(a) Tandale.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Torresdale.
(d) Trenton.

8. Who is elected chairman of the strikers?
(a) Jim.
(b) Dakin.
(c) London.
(d) Mac.

9. What does Mac say has just happened to the pickers in Torgas Valley that could help incite a riot?
(a) The pickers' leader has been incarcerated.
(b) The pickers have organized a coup.
(c) They have been given a pay cut by the Growers' Association.
(d) There have been mass layoffs.

10. What nickname does London give Mac that sticks?
(a) Sarg.
(b) Doc.
(c) Captain.
(d) Duke.

11. What does Harry Nilson have of Jim's when Jim reaches his office?
(a) Jim's paycheks.
(b) Jim's dog.
(c) Jim's belongings.
(d) Jim's application.

12. What does Mac admit to Jim after delivering Lisa's baby?
(a) He did not know what he was doing.
(b) He never worked in a hospital.
(c) He saw how to deliver a baby once on TV.
(d) He was scared out of his mind.

13. What as Mac sent away for the previous night that he expects the next morning?
(a) Posters.
(b) Stamps.
(c) Amunition.
(d) Guns.

14. What does Jim claim men can gain from doing such work that the Party has them do?
(a) Clear thinking.
(b) Motivation.
(c) Peacefulness.
(d) Rage.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dakin predict the growers will bring in if the workers organize a strike?

2. Who approaches Jim and Mac saying that the committee wants a report?

3. What does Jim hear at the end of Chapter 6 before he falls asleep?

4. What does the orchard superintendent threaten to do if London does not comply?

5. With what is Joy charged after making a speech on a street corner?

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