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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens during a fire drill at the school two years after it is constructed?
(a) The fire drill is actually a real fire and most of the children are overcome with smoke.
(b) The students and teachers are locked in the building.
(c) The brickwork collapses causing the deaths of three children and serious injury to a dozen more.
(d) Someone pulls the fire alarm as a prank and is suspended for three weeks.

2. What does Willie want for his son, Tom?
(a) He wants him to marry a nice girl and settle down in Mason City.
(b) He wants him to go to Harvard or Yale and become a lawyer.
(c) He wants him to become a professional baseball player.
(d) He wants him to be a part of all the excitement of Willie's administration.

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

4. What does Jack Burden carry with him?
(a) A whiskey flask
(b) A press pass
(c) A pencil and paper
(d) A tape recorder

5. Why does Willie lose when he runs for reelection?
(a) He runs against the mayor's very popular son.
(b) He does not have a good record on administering city tax dollars.
(c) The city commissioners start a rumor that the contractor Willie wanted, Jeffers, hired Negro workers.
(d) He does not have enough money to print campaign posters.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far is Burden's Landing from Mason City?

2. What was Willie Stark's job when Jack Burden first meets him?

3. What is the topic of Jack's dissertation?

4. What do Jack and Judge Irwin make while Jack is growing up?

5. Cass and his brother, Gilbert, and sister, Lavinia, were born in poverty in what state?

(see the answer key)

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