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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Adam and Willie discuss when Jack and Willie go to Adam's apartment?
(a) The baseball scores from last night
(b) Their former girlfriends
(c) The rumors of war in Europe
(d) Goodness and badness

2. Who is Mortimer L. Littlepaugh?
(a) Dean of the University of Mississippi
(b) Attorney for the American Electric Power Company
(c) CEO of BellSouth
(d) President of the Civil Liberties Union

3. Who do the city commissioners want to get the contract?
(a) Jeffers Construction Company
(b) Dolph Pillsbury
(c) J.H. Moore
(d) Burke's Brick & Tile Company

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Adam, Anne and Jack spend the evening?

2. What does Cass do with his own slaves?

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

4. What does Willie order when everyone else orders beer?

5. How many husbands has Mrs. Burden had?

(see the answer key)

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