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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Jack spend a weekend with Adam and Anne?
(a) The Landing
(b) Biloxi
(c) Memphis
(d) New Orleans

2. What does Willie consider the new hospital to be?
(a) A nuisance
(b) A monument to himself
(c) A necessity for the state
(d) A money pit

3. To what year does the story flash back?
(a) 1896
(b) 1915
(c) 1940
(d) 1922

4. Cass and his brother, Gilbert, and sister, Lavinia, were born in poverty in what state?
(a) Alabama
(b) Mississippi
(c) Georgia
(d) Tennessee

5. Who were Jack's childhood friends?
(a) Adam and Anne Stanton
(b) Tiny Duffy and Sugar Boy
(c) Willie and Teddy Stark
(d) Sadie and Marie Burke

Short Answer Questions

1. Why will Tiny Duffy not help Willie improve his dreadful campaign speeches?

2. How many husbands has Mrs. Burden had?

3. What is Willie's wife's profession?

4. Why does Duffy want Gummy Larson to do the construction job on the hospital?

5. Willie Stark is known as ______________.

(see the answer key)

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