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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the situation regarding a brick kiln and the bricks Moore would use on the awarded job?
(a) The kiln is located in another state and there are tax issues.
(b) There had been a lawsuit about the inferior quality of the bricks.
(c) The brick kiln cannot produce the amount of bricks needed to meet the deadline.
(d) The brick kiln cannot produce the correct color of bricks for the school.

3. 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.

4. Who do Willie and Jack drive to Burden's Landing to see?
(a) Judge Irwin
(b) Anne Stanton
(c) Sadie Burke
(d) Mrs. Burden

5. How far is Burden's Landing from Mason City?
(a) 30 miles
(b) 130 miles
(c) 100 miles
(d) 33 miles

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Willie want for his son, Tom?

2. What does Willie tell White after White accuses Willie of impunity?

3. What happens when Willie runs for the governorship in 1930?

4. Why does Jack attend the state university instead of abiding by his mother's wishes and going to Harvard or Princeton?

5. What is Judge Irwin's response to Willie's request?

(see the answer key)

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