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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) That White would make a good county prosecutor.
(c) That White should never have entered public office.
(d) White has watched the rich get richer and the poor get poorer for 15 years.

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

3. How did Tiny Duffy get his name?
(a) He has a small intellect.
(b) He is a large, overweight man.
(c) He is a short, slim man.
(d) He has a tiny head.

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

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

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

7. What does Cass do with his own slaves?
(a) Increases the whippings
(b) Threatens them with mutilation if they try to run away
(c) Frees them and sends them to school
(d) Frees them and hires them

8. To what college does Gilbert send Cass?
(a) Transylvania University in Kentucky
(b) Harvard University in Massachusetts
(c) Yale University in Connecticut
(d) Princeton University in New Jersey

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

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

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

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

13. What literary technique does the author use to take the story back in time again?
(a) Plot in reverse
(b) Reverse plot
(c) Plot timeline
(d) Flashback

14. How far is Burden's Landing from Mason City?
(a) 30 miles
(b) 100 miles
(c) 33 miles
(d) 130 miles

15. 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) Someone pulls the fire alarm as a prank and is suspended for three weeks.
(c) The fire drill is actually a real fire and most of the children are overcome with smoke.
(d) The brickwork collapses causing the deaths of three children and serious injury to a dozen more.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can Willie be confident in his position?

2. How does Willie benefit from what happens at the school fire drill?

3. What does Jack think he can find to blackmail Judge Irwin?

4. When Jack returns to his office, he finds that ______________________________ have been begun for State Auditor, Byram B. White.

5. What is the situation regarding a brick kiln and the bricks Moore would use on the awarded job?

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