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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 does Willie order when everyone else orders beer?
(a) Sweet tea
(b) Orange pop
(c) Coca-Cola
(d) Coffee

2. What happens when Willie runs for the governorship in 1930?
(a) Willie wins but does not accept the office.
(b) Willie is defeated by the MacMurfee faction.
(c) Willie is defeated by the Harrison faction.
(d) Willie wins.

3. What literary technique does the author use to take the story back in time again?
(a) Plot in reverse
(b) Reverse plot
(c) Plot timeline
(d) Flashback

4. What surprising twist occurs at Willie's next speech?
(a) Willie tells the crowd about how he has been duped and he is resigning in order to support MacMurfee.
(b) Willie resigns because his wife cannot withstand the rigors of the campaign.
(c) Willie resigns because he gets some bad medical news.
(d) Willie resigns before he is blackmailed.

5. How does Willie benefit from what happens at the school fire drill?
(a) The people realize the corruption related to the brick quality and they should have voted for Willie.
(b) Willie is asked to work as a consultant on the rebuilding of the school.
(c) Willie gets to hire a new architect who is a friend of his.
(d) Willie gets reelected on a special emergency vote.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who becomes Willie's campaign manager?

2. Who recommended the school for Cass?

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

4. With whom did Adam and Anne Stanton live as children?

5. Why do people come to hear Willie speak?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Jack's mother and Judge Irwin feel about Jack's association with Willie Stark?

2. What purpose does Chapter 4 serve for the novel?

3. What is the major point of contention between Willie and Lucy about their son, Tom?

4. Why is the move to hire Adam Stanton as the administrator of Willie's new hospital so out of character for Willie?

5. What leads Jack to explore the judge's interest in the American Electric Power Company?

6. What does the new hospital symbolize for Willie?

7. What had happened to Anne after she breaks up with Jack and graduates college?

8. What does Jack recall about his childhood at the beginning of Chapter 3?

9. Explain how Judge Irwin's death grants Jack his independence.

10. What is the author's purpose for beginning the novel in the way he does?

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