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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was included in Cass' papers?
(a) Old bank drafts
(b) Love letters
(c) Sketches and a diary
(d) Photos, letters, a journal and account books

2. Who becomes Willie's campaign manager?
(a) Jack Burden
(b) Judge Irwin
(c) Sugar Boy
(d) Tiny Duffy

3. Where do Willie and Jack go after leaving Judge Irwin?
(a) To Baton Rouge
(b) To Willie's farm in Mason City
(c) To Biloxi
(d) To Memphis

4. 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 knows how to campaign better than anyone in the state.
(c) He can blackmail anyone he needs to in order to secure his position.
(d) He has the loyalty of the people all over the state.

5. Who do Willie and Jack drive to Burden's Landing to see?
(a) Anne Stanton
(b) Mrs. Burden
(c) Judge Irwin
(d) Sadie Burke

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

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

8. When Jack returns to his office, he finds that ______________________________ have been begun for State Auditor, Byram B. White.
(a) Reelection plans
(b) Impeachment proceedings
(c) Anniversary plans
(d) Birthday celebration

9. How does Jack confirm Willie's affair?
(a) Because he has seen the woman coming out of Willie's hotel room one morning.
(b) Because the woman storms into his office demanding to know about rumors of Willie seeing other women.
(c) Because Willie sends Jack to buy the woman a piece of jewelry.
(d) Because he confronts Willie directly.

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

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

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

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

14. What kinds of stories are surfacing at the newspaper office, The Chronicle?
(a) Stories about segregation
(b) Stories about prohibition
(c) Stories about corruption in county courthouses
(d) Stories about environmental issues

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were Jack's childhood friends?

2. With whom did Adam and Anne Stanton live as children?

3. Who was like a second father to Jack after Jack's father left?

4. Who does not approve of Jack working for Willie?

5. What happens to indicate that Lucy is not engaged in Willie's life?

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