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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What story does Jack's editor want Jack to get?
(a) The Mason City Labor Day Beauty Pageant
(b) The Mason City Fourth of July Celebration
(c) The fire at the Mason City Elementary School
(d) The politics involved in a construction contract award

3. What does Willie do after he loses the election?
(a) He works his farm and studies law.
(b) He takes a much-deserved extended vacation.
(c) He becomes a school teacher.
(d) He gets a job at the state finance department.

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

5. How does Willie enter politics again?
(a) Willie is appointed to his old position of county treasurer.
(b) He stumps for a congressional candidate who is running against the candidate who is a friend of Dolph Pillsbury's.
(c) Willie is elected to the school board.
(d) Willie runs for mayor during the next election.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the quality of Willie's speeches?

2. Why does Willie lose when he runs for reelection?

3. What is Willie's wife's profession?

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

5. What does Jack Burden carry with him?

(see the answer key)

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