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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Willie tell Jack to do?
(a) Find his own way back to town
(b) Find a way to influence the judge
(c) Make sure Willie is front page news tomorrow
(d) Find something to blackmail Judge Irwin

3. Who does not approve of Jack working for Willie?
(a) Judge Irwin
(b) Anne Stanton
(c) Jack's mother, Mrs. Burden
(d) Tiny Duffy

4. Why is Willie's wife, Lucy, leaving Willie?
(a) Because Willie is having an affair
(b) Because he has covered up Byram White's crime
(c) Because she has fallen in love with someone else
(d) Because she cannot live in the glare of the public spotlight

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

6. What happens when Jack visits his father in his small apartment now?
(a) Jack takes his father to dinner and a movie.
(b) Jack rejects his religious obsessions and his father says he will pray for Jack's soul.
(c) Jack takes food so his father will remember to eat.
(d) Jack takes his father to minor league baseball games.

7. Of what has White been accused?
(a) Making a deal with the Tax Lands Bureau for a kickback
(b) Having an affair with a congressman's wife
(c) Propositioning one of the pages at the state house
(d) Cheating on his taxes

8. What does Gilbert do after he runs away from home?
(a) He runs to Canada to hide out.
(b) He goes to Mississippi and becomes a wealthy cotton baron.
(c) He becomes a decorated Civil War general.
(d) He goes to California and starts a winery.

9. How can Willie be confident in his position?
(a) He has helped the people in the state more than anyone else who has ever held the office.
(b) He can blackmail anyone he needs to in order to secure his position.
(c) He has the loyalty of the people all over the state.
(d) He knows how to campaign better than anyone in the state.

10. Where is Wille Stark's home town?
(a) Mason City
(b) Baton Rouge
(c) Memphis
(d) Biloxi

11. Where does Annabelle take Phebe to be sold?
(a) Owensboro
(b) Lexington
(c) Louisville
(d) Paducah

12. What happens during a fire drill at the school two years after it is constructed?
(a) The students and teachers are locked in the building.
(b) The brickwork collapses causing the deaths of three children and serious injury to a dozen more.
(c) The fire drill is actually a real fire and most of the children are overcome with smoke.
(d) Someone pulls the fire alarm as a prank and is suspended for three weeks.

13. Who takes over as Jack's father after Jack's father leaves?
(a) Judge Irwin
(b) Mr. Stark
(c) Governor Stanton
(d) Grandfather Burden

14. Who is the narrator of the story?
(a) Jack Burden
(b) Adam Stanton
(c) Anne Stanton
(d) Willie Stark

15. Why is the decision made to back Willie?
(a) To split the Irwin vote
(b) To split the Stanton vote
(c) To split the MacMurfee vote
(d) To split the Harrison vote

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Jack and Judge Irwin make while Jack is growing up?

2. Why do people come to hear Willie speak?

3. What does Annabelle do when she sees Cass after her husband's death?

4. Who do Willie and Jack drive to Burden's Landing to see?

5. What literary technique does the author use to take the story back in time again?

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