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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 is Mac worried about the morning following Joy's death?
(a) No one caring about Joy.
(b) The strike breaking.
(c) Joy not being remembered.
(d) More men dying.

2. Who do the group of men accuse of collecting money from Moscow?
(a) London.
(b) Mac.
(c) Jim.
(d) Doc Burton.

3. What is delivered by truck to the camp?
(a) Disinfectant.
(b) Food.
(c) Guns.
(d) Joy's coffin.

4. Why does Dakin lose his mind, bite a cop, and end up incarcerated?
(a) He is hit in the head.
(b) Vigilantes destroy his truck.
(c) He has lost faith in the cause.
(d) Vigilantes kill his wife.

5. What does Mac wish he could get for Doc Burton?
(a) A woman.
(b) More armed guards.
(c) More disinfectant.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Bolter accuse Mac of being sent by?

2. What is set on fire that enrages the men and sparks the impending riot?

3. Who accuses Mac of being insensitive and cold-blooded after Mac says he wants to take Joy's body back to camp?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 9, what day of the strike is it when the men organize a picket to meet the train?

5. What is in London's tent when he invites Mac and Jim inside?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Joy's death in Chapter 9 solidify the men in their cause?

2. What does Mac warn Bolter about when Bolter accuses him of being sent by Red headquarters?

3. How does group man take over in Sam and Jim's group?

4. Where do the cows, bull calf, and lima beans for the strikers come from?

5. What does Doc Burton admire about Mac's speech during Joy's funeral?

6. What happens to London when an outside agitator tries to turn the crowd against him?

7. What happens towards the end of Chapter 9 that Mac is blamed for?

8. In Chapter 13, how does the reader see that there is a thin line between the migrant workers and the townspeople during the funeral march?

9. What does the false headline in the paper claim that infuriates Mac?

10. Why is Dakin incarcerated for biting a cop?

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