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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Judge Irwin's response to Willie's request?
(a) He is not able to do it.
(b) He will be glad to do it.
(c) He will think about it.
(d) He will not do it.

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

3. What does Willie tell Jack that he is going to build?
(a) A free hospital and health center
(b) A monument in his likeness
(c) A new civic center
(d) A new state courthouse

4. Who befriends Willie to keep an eye on his campaign for the Harrison faction?
(a) Lucille MacMurfee
(b) Mrs. Pillsbury
(c) Anne Stanton
(d) Sadie Burke

5. What happens when Jack visits his father in his small apartment now?
(a) Jack takes food so his father will remember to eat.
(b) Jack rejects his religious obsessions and his father says he will pray for Jack's soul.
(c) Jack takes his father to dinner and a movie.
(d) Jack takes his father to minor league baseball games.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens during a fire drill at the school two years after it is constructed?

2. What does Jack Burden carry with him?

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

4. Why will Tiny Duffy not help Willie improve his dreadful campaign speeches?

5. What happens to indicate that Lucy is not engaged in Willie's life?

(see the answer key)

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