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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

3. Who is Willie Stark's wife?
(a) Lucille
(b) Anne
(c) Lucy
(d) Marie

4. What happens to Willie's career in April of 1933?
(a) Willie has to step down for health reasons.
(b) The news of Willie's affairs threatens his career.
(c) Willie receives the national endorsement to campaign for president.
(d) There are impeachment proceeding initiated because of the White case.

5. What do Jack and Judge Irwin make while Jack is growing up?
(a) Model airplanes
(b) Ships in bottles
(c) Kites
(d) Models of ancient weapons

6. 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 his father to dinner and a movie.
(c) Jack rejects his religious obsessions and his father says he will pray for Jack's soul.
(d) Jack takes food so his father will remember to eat.

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

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

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

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

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

12. Who do the city commissioners want to get the contract?
(a) J.H. Moore
(b) Dolph Pillsbury
(c) Jeffers Construction Company
(d) Burke's Brick & Tile Company

13. Who is Cass Mastern?
(a) Jack's favorite history professor
(b) Jack's high school football coach
(c) The topic of Jack's dissertation for the Ph.D. in History
(d) Jack's landlord during college

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who recommended the school for Cass?

4. Where does Annabelle take Phebe to be sold?

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

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