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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two major political factions run the state?
(a) The Irwin faction and the Stanton faction
(b) The Stark faction and the Burden faction
(c) The Harrison faction and the MacMurfee faction
(d) The Burke faction and the Stark faction

2. What does Willie tell Jack to do?
(a) Make sure Willie is front page news tomorrow
(b) Find something to blackmail Judge Irwin
(c) Find his own way back to town
(d) Find a way to influence the judge

3. Who was like a second father to Jack after Jack's father left?
(a) Judge Irwin
(b) Mr. Stark
(c) Mr. Burke
(d) Governor Stanton

4. In what year does Willie first run for governor?
(a) 1930
(b) 1922
(c) 1926
(d) 1934

5. Why does Willie lose when he runs for reelection?
(a) The city commissioners start a rumor that the contractor Willie wanted, Jeffers, hired Negro workers.
(b) He does not have enough money to print campaign posters.
(c) He runs against the mayor's very popular son.
(d) He does not have a good record on administering city tax dollars.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Wille Stark's home town?

3. What story does Jack's editor want Jack to get?

4. What literary technique does the author use to take the story back in time again?

5. Willie Stark is known as ______________.

(see the answer key)

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