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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does the story begin?
(a) 1900
(b) 1936
(c) 1920
(d) 1945

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

3. What does Jack think he can find to blackmail Judge Irwin?
(a) He knows the dirt about the Judge's divorce.
(b) He knows that the Judge has an illegitimate child.
(c) He does not think he can find anything.
(d) He knows that the Judge has money in Cayman banks.

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

5. How does Willie benefit from what happens at the school fire drill?
(a) Willie gets to hire a new architect who is a friend of his.
(b) The people realize the corruption related to the brick quality and they should have voted for Willie.
(c) Willie gets reelected on a special emergency vote.
(d) Willie is asked to work as a consultant on the rebuilding of the school.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Judge Irwin react when a dinner guest berates Governor Stark's programs?

3. With whom has Willie been having an affair?

4. What does Willie tell Jack to do?

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

(see the answer key)

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