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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jack confirm Willie's affair?
(a) Because the woman storms into his office demanding to know about rumors of Willie seeing other women.
(b) Because he has seen the woman coming out of Willie's hotel room one morning.
(c) Because he confronts Willie directly.
(d) Because Willie sends Jack to buy the woman a piece of jewelry.

2. Who becomes Willie's campaign manager?
(a) Sugar Boy
(b) Tiny Duffy
(c) Jack Burden
(d) Judge Irwin

3. In a flashback, what does the author reveal about Jack's father?
(a) Jack's father was a homosexual.
(b) Jack's father had multiple affairs.
(c) Jack's father never got his law degree.
(d) Jack's father left his family with no explanation.

4. What does Jack Burden carry with him?
(a) A press pass
(b) A tape recorder
(c) A whiskey flask
(d) A pencil and paper

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cass learn from Gilbert?

2. In what subject did Jack pursue his Ph.D. at the university?

3. What happens when Jack visits his father in his small apartment now?

4. Cass and his brother, Gilbert, and sister, Lavinia, were born in poverty in what state?

5. In what year does the story begin?

(see the answer key)

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