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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Willie tell Jack that he is going to build?
(a) A free hospital and health center
(b) A monument in his likeness
(c) A new state courthouse
(d) A new civic center

2. What does Cass do with his own slaves?
(a) Frees them and sends them to school
(b) Increases the whippings
(c) Frees them and hires them
(d) Threatens them with mutilation if they try to run away

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

4. Willie Stark is known as ______________.
(a) The Boss
(b) The Man
(c) The Big Guy
(d) Colonel

5. Who is Willie Stark's wife?
(a) Lucy
(b) Anne
(c) Lucille
(d) Marie

Short Answer Questions

1. How many husbands has Mrs. Burden had?

2. What does Cass learn from Gilbert?

3. Gilbert sends Lavinia to an expensive school in Atlanta and _____________________________.

4. How is Dolph Pillsbury connected to the troubles with the brick kiln?

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

(see the answer key)

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