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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to Annabelle's husband, Duncan Trice?
(a) He is shot in a bar fight.
(b) He is shot accidentally while cleaning his pistols.
(c) He commits suicide.
(d) He is thrown from his horse.

3. With what married woman did Cass become involved at Transylvania?
(a) Annabeth Jefferson
(b) Annabeth Lee
(c) Annabelle Lee
(d) Annabelle Trice

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

5. What does Willie want for his son, Tom?
(a) He wants him to marry a nice girl and settle down in Mason City.
(b) He wants him to become a professional baseball player.
(c) He wants him to go to Harvard or Yale and become a lawyer.
(d) He wants him to be a part of all the excitement of Willie's administration.

6. What does Willie do after he loses the election?
(a) He works his farm and studies law.
(b) He becomes a school teacher.
(c) He takes a much-deserved extended vacation.
(d) He gets a job at the state finance department.

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

8. Why does Jack attend the state university instead of abiding by his mother's wishes and going to Harvard or Princeton?
(a) Jack does not want to move that far away from home.
(b) Jack does not think he would adapt well to a northern school.
(c) Jack thinks his mother still needs his help occasionally.
(d) Jack wants to put himself through college and the state school is less expensive.

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

10. What does Annabelle do when she sees Cass after her husband's death?
(a) She throws herself at Cass in grief.
(b) She puts her husband's wedding ring on Cass.
(c) She faints.
(d) She tells Cass to leave.

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

12. 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 food so his father will remember to eat.
(d) Jack takes his father to dinner and a movie.

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

14. What does the answer to #45 reveal to Willie?
(a) That she has been attending all of Willie's speeches.
(b) That Willie has been used by the Hamiltons in the campaign.
(c) That she is very attracted to Willie.
(d) That Willie will be a wonderful governor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cass do with his own slaves?

2. Why will Tiny Duffy not help Willie improve his dreadful campaign speeches?

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

4. Who were Jack's childhood friends?

5. How does Jack confirm Willie's affair?

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