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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Frees them and hires them
(d) Increases the whippings

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. To what year does the story flash back?
(a) 1940
(b) 1915
(c) 1922
(d) 1896

4. What is the quality of Willie's speeches?
(a) They are innovative.
(b) They are rousing.
(c) They are not good.
(d) They are conventional.

5. What does Jack think he can find to blackmail Judge Irwin?
(a) He does not think he can find anything.
(b) He knows that the Judge has an illegitimate child.
(c) He knows the dirt about the Judge's divorce.
(d) He knows that the Judge has money in Cayman banks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does Jack's editor want Jack to get?

2. What kinds of stories are surfacing at the newspaper office, The Chronicle?

3. How does Jack confirm Willie's affair?

4. In what year does Willie first run for governor?

5. How can Willie be confident in his position?

(see the answer key)

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