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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: It Takes the Hair Right Off Your Bean.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a lighter leaf grown in the Piedmont area of Virginia and North Carolina nicknamed?
(a) The light leaf.
(b) The bright leaf.
(c) The green leaf.
(d) The sweet leaf.

2. Why does Buck open a New York plant in 1884?
(a) To try to grab hold of the immigrant market for cheap cigarettes.
(b) New York is a large city, with many wealthy smokers.
(c) He has always wanted to live in New York.
(d) To try to merge with large New York companies.

3. What are extremely rare in America in the 1800s?
(a) Brand-name products.
(b) Hand-rolled cigarettes.
(c) Home-grown tobacco.
(d) Generic products.

4. What is happening by 1901?
(a) Illinois, Arizona, and New Hampshire made cigarettes illegal.
(b) Iowa, Tennesse, and North Dakota have made cigarettes illegal, and more states are looking at the option.
(c) Idaho, Kentucky, and New York made cigarettes illegal.
(d) Indiana, Florida, and North Carolina made cigarettes illegal.

5. Why do farmers have to accept American Tobacco Company's prices?
(a) The government is forcing them to comply with ATC.
(b) They trust ATC.
(c) They are being blackmailed.
(d) They risk losing their perishable crop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does R.J. Reynolds dub the new brand?

2. What do magazines describe?

3. What has a small tobacco manufacturing company in Durham after the Civil War thriving?

4. What is happening to cigarettes on the social front in 1898?

5. What custom becomes very common in the United States throughout the 1800s?

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