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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Willie Stark's job when Jack Burden first meets him?
(a) Assistant District Attorney
(b) County Treasurer
(c) County Prosecutor
(d) Court Reporter

2. To whom does Mortimer L. Littlepaugh give a letter the night before he dies?
(a) His sister, Miss Lily Mae Littlepaugh
(b) His brother, Clayton A. Littlepaugh
(c) Judge Irwin
(d) Governor Stanton

3. How does Judge Irwin react when a dinner guest berates Governor Stark's programs?
(a) He changes the subject.
(b) He defends them as necessary in a changing world.
(c) He lets the arguments escalate.
(d) He agrees with his guest.

4. What does Willie want of Judge Irwin?
(a) He wants the judge to support a man Willie has chosen for a senate nomination.
(b) He wants the judge to contribute to his campaign funds.
(c) He wants the judge to campaign for him in the next election.
(d) He wants the judge to endorse him in the next election.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the topic of Jack's dissertation?

2. What interrupts the only opportunity Jack and Anne had to be intimate?

3. Who is Willie told will be the best person to run the hospital?

4. Who is Cass Mastern?

5. Where did Anne go to college?

(see the answer key)

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