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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Tiny Duffy get his name?
(a) He is a large, overweight man.
(b) He has a tiny head.
(c) He is a short, slim man.
(d) He has a small intellect.

2. What surprising twist occurs at Willie's next speech?
(a) Willie tells the crowd about how he has been duped and he is resigning in order to support MacMurfee.
(b) Willie resigns because his wife cannot withstand the rigors of the campaign.
(c) Willie resigns because he gets some bad medical news.
(d) Willie resigns before he is blackmailed.

3. Which political faction covertly backs Willie's campaign?
(a) The Stanton faction
(b) The Harrison faction
(c) The MacMurfee faction
(d) The Irwin faction

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

5. What does Willie want for his son, Tom?
(a) He wants him to marry a nice girl and settle down in Mason City.
(b) He wants him to go to Harvard or Yale and become a lawyer.
(c) He wants him to become a professional baseball player.
(d) He wants him to be a part of all the excitement of Willie's administration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of stories are surfacing at the newspaper office, The Chronicle?

2. What happens to Willie's career in April of 1933?

3. Who was like a second father to Jack after Jack's father left?

4. During dinner at the judge's home one night in 1933, what topic comes up as part of the conversation?

5. What does Gilbert do after he runs away from home?

(see the answer key)

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