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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Willie tell White after White accuses Willie of impunity?
(a) That White should take some time off.
(b) White has watched the rich get richer and the poor get poorer for 15 years.
(c) That White would make a good county prosecutor.
(d) That White should never have entered public office.

2. Who steps in and offers blackmail as a tool to help White?
(a) Tiny Duffy
(b) Governor Stark
(c) Judge Irwin
(d) Former Governor Stanton

3. What is the quality of Willie's speeches?
(a) They are conventional.
(b) They are innovative.
(c) They are not good.
(d) They are rousing.

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 his father to minor league baseball games.
(c) Jack takes his father to dinner and a movie.
(d) Jack takes food so his father will remember to eat.

5. What does Cass learn from Gilbert?
(a) How to manage a plantation
(b) How to speak French
(c) How to ride a horse
(d) How to order wine in a restaurant

6. In a flashback, what does the author reveal about Jack's father?
(a) Jack's father was a homosexual.
(b) Jack's father never got his law degree.
(c) Jack's father had multiple affairs.
(d) Jack's father left his family with no explanation.

7. What two major political factions run the state?
(a) The Harrison faction and the MacMurfee faction
(b) The Burke faction and the Stark faction
(c) The Stark faction and the Burden faction
(d) The Irwin faction and the Stanton faction

8. What happens when Willie runs for the governorship in 1930?
(a) Willie is defeated by the MacMurfee faction.
(b) Willie wins but does not accept the office.
(c) Willie is defeated by the Harrison faction.
(d) Willie wins.

9. How many husbands has Mrs. Burden had?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 0
(d) 1

10. Who recommended the school for Cass?
(a) Abraham Lincoln
(b) Ulysses S. Grant
(c) Robert E. Lee
(d) Jefferson Davis

11. Who befriends Willie to keep an eye on his campaign for the Harrison faction?
(a) Sadie Burke
(b) Lucille MacMurfee
(c) Anne Stanton
(d) Mrs. Pillsbury

12. What happens during the next election for governor?
(a) Willie is elected.
(b) Willie runs but does not accept the position.
(c) Will is soundly defeated.
(d) Willie declines to run.

13. On what topic does Willie complain to Jack about Lucy?
(a) How Lucy is raising their son, Tom
(b) How much Lucy has overextended her wardrobe budget
(c) How much weight Lucy seems to have gained recently
(d) How much money Lucy is spending to decorate the governor's mansion

14. Who becomes Willie's campaign manager?
(a) Judge Irwin
(b) Tiny Duffy
(c) Jack Burden
(d) Sugar Boy

15. What was included in Cass' papers?
(a) Love letters
(b) Old bank drafts
(c) Photos, letters, a journal and account books
(d) Sketches and a diary

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Willie Stark's wife?

2. Who were Jack's childhood friends?

3. With what married woman did Cass become involved at Transylvania?

4. In what year does the story begin?

5. What do Willie and Jack do with Willie's father?

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