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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Dolph Pillsbury connected to the troubles with the brick kiln?
(a) Pillsbury used to make bricks for the kiln company.
(b) Pillsbury is a major investor in the kiln business.
(c) Pillsbury used to do the accounting for the kiln company.
(d) Pillsbury's brother-in-law owns the kiln and Pillsbury is suspected of getting kickbacks on the school job.

2. What does Willie tell Jack to do?
(a) Find a way to influence the judge
(b) Make sure Willie is front page news tomorrow
(c) Find something to blackmail Judge Irwin
(d) Find his own way back to town

3. How many husbands has Mrs. Burden had?
(a) 2
(b) 1
(c) 3
(d) 0

4. What does Cass do with his own slaves?
(a) Threatens them with mutilation if they try to run away
(b) Frees them and sends them to school
(c) Increases the whippings
(d) Frees them and hires them

5. Where is Wille Stark's home town?
(a) Baton Rouge
(b) Mason City
(c) Biloxi
(d) Memphis

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mortimer L. Littlepaugh?

2. What happened to Judge Irwin's first wife?

3. What happens to Willie's career in April of 1933?

4. In a flashback, what does the author reveal about Jack's father?

5. What happens when Jack visits his father in his small apartment now?

(see the answer key)

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