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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What ordinance does Mac predict the county will pass in the event of a strike?
2. What does Al express concern about while Jim and Mac eat at his Lunch Wagon?
3. What does Mac lament doing after the men who try to steal their paper leave?
4. What does Mac have the men do after the birth so that they can share in the experience and participate.
5. Why is Dakin better off than most other migrant workers?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Mac say that if Lisa had died the birthing experience would still have been worthwhile?
2. Why does Mac want to make sure that Doc Burton has no legal or civil problems?
3. What is the specific situation that occurred that Mac recounts as the reason for why Joy is "screwy."
4. In Chapter 5, what does Old Dan predict happening with the group of strikers in Torgas Valley? What does he mean by "water heaving before the boil"?
5. Why does Mac strategize about bringing a doctor onto the strikers' camping ground?
6. Why is Joy incarcerated in Chapter 3?
7. What does the orchard superintendent tell London to do?
8. Why is Dakin afraid of being involved in the strike?
9. Why is field work so dangerous, according to Mac?
10. In Chapter 7, why does Mac need Doc Burton to come and stay on the campsite with the strikers?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Is Dakin a likable character? Can the reader trust him? What sets him apart from the other men? What is it about Dakin that the reader is not fully convinced about? Write an essay that supports these claims and also shows how these suspicions about Dakin can foreshadow his eventual downfall.
Essay Topic 2
Jim is the protagonist and the system is the antagonist. Support this statement with specific examples from the text that show this contrast and the nature of the relationship between the two.
Essay Topic 3
What is group man? How is it its own character although it is a collective of people? How is group man different from the individual? How does the collective become an additional danger to the outside dangers already present to the men? Cite specific examples from the text to support your answer.
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