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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Willie benefit from what happens at the school fire drill?
(a) Willie gets reelected on a special emergency vote.
(b) Willie gets to hire a new architect who is a friend of his.
(c) The people realize the corruption related to the brick quality and they should have voted for Willie.
(d) Willie is asked to work as a consultant on the rebuilding of the school.

2. What is Judge Irwin's response to Willie's request?
(a) He will think about it.
(b) He is not able to do it.
(c) He will be glad to do it.
(d) He will not do it.

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

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

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

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

7. What is the situation regarding a brick kiln and the bricks Moore would use on the awarded job?
(a) The brick kiln cannot produce the correct color of bricks for the school.
(b) There had been a lawsuit about the inferior quality of the bricks.
(c) The brick kiln cannot produce the amount of bricks needed to meet the deadline.
(d) The kiln is located in another state and there are tax issues.

8. Willie Stark is known as ______________.
(a) The Boss
(b) Colonel
(c) The Big Guy
(d) The Man

9. Who was like a second father to Jack after Jack's father left?
(a) Governor Stanton
(b) Judge Irwin
(c) Mr. Burke
(d) Mr. Stark

10. Why does Annabelle sell Phebe, her waiting maid?
(a) Because she saw Annabelle shoot her husband.
(b) Because Phebe had set fire to the bedroom drapes with a candle.
(c) Because Annabelle wants a younger maid in the house.
(d) Because Phebe knows about Annabelle's husband's ring on Cass' finger.

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

12. What surprising twist occurs at Willie's next speech?
(a) Willie resigns before he is blackmailed.
(b) Willie resigns because he gets some bad medical news.
(c) Willie tells the crowd about how he has been duped and he is resigning in order to support MacMurfee.
(d) Willie resigns because his wife cannot withstand the rigors of the campaign.

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

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

15. During dinner at the judge's home one night in 1933, what topic comes up as part of the conversation?
(a) Jack's old girlfriends
(b) The coming war in Europe
(c) Jack's job in politics and the influence he holds
(d) Jack's school days

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the quality of Willie's speeches?

2. To what year does the story flash back?

3. Why does Jack attend the state university instead of abiding by his mother's wishes and going to Harvard or Princeton?

4. Who becomes Willie's campaign manager?

5. How did Tiny Duffy get his name?

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