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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Jack spend a weekend with Adam and Anne?
(a) Memphis
(b) The Landing
(c) Biloxi
(d) New Orleans

2. What does MacMurfree want in return?
(a) He wants the child to be named after him
(b) The governor's endorsement when MacMurfee runs for the Senate
(c) He wants the governor to approve his brother-in-law's bid on a big construction project
(d) He wants nothing in return

3. What does Jack finally ask Anne?
(a) Why she will not marry him now
(b) Why she got involved with Willie
(c) Why she never left this small town
(d) Why she did not want to marry him

4. What does Anne reveals as the topic of conversation the last time she had lunch with the governor?
(a) A new hospital
(b) A Special Olympics event
(c) A new theater
(d) A children's home

5. What do Jack and Anne continue to discuss as the years progress?
(a) Marriage
(b) Grant money
(c) Vacations
(d) New cars

6. What does Willie want for Tom?
(a) To marry a good Southern girl and settle down
(b) To spend some time in Europe
(c) To have fun he was denied as a child
(d) To study hard and get a law degree

7. What does Anne eventually decide about marriage to Jack?
(a) She decides that she will marry Jack but will not expect it to last.
(b) She decides she does not want to marry Jack.
(c) She decides that she will marry Jack when the time is right.
(d) She decides to marry Jack the next time he asks her.

8. What do Adam and Willie discuss when Jack and Willie go to Adam's apartment?
(a) The rumors of war in Europe
(b) Goodness and badness
(c) Their former girlfriends
(d) The baseball scores from last night

9. What puzzles Jack about the hospital discussion?
(a) He wonders where all the money is going.
(b) He wonders why the construction schedule isn't more aggressive.
(c) He wonders who the major contributors are for the hospital fund.
(d) He does not know how Anne knew that Adam had been asked to head up the hospital.

10. Who confirms the fact that Anne is having an affair with Willie?
(a) Anne
(b) Lucy
(c) Willie
(d) Tom

11. What else does Jack's mother tell Jack about Judge Irwin?
(a) Judge Irwin has had a heart attack.
(b) Judge Irwin has killed himself.
(c) Judge Irwin was killed in a car accident.
(d) Judge Irwin has shot Willie Stark.

12. Why is Anne depressed?
(a) She has not done anything with her life.
(b) She has lost her job.
(c) She wishes she had married Jack.
(d) Her best friend has cancer.

13. Where did Anne go to college?
(a) Mississippi
(b) Tennessee
(c) Virginia
(d) Georgia

14. What does Jack discover about the wealth of Judge Irwin's second wife?
(a) She invests well and becomes an even wealthier woman.
(b) She had cut the judge out of her will.
(c) She had been left a lot of money but spent it by the time she married the judge.
(d) She is very frugal and dies with most of her money untouched.

15. What does MacMurfree offer to do?
(a) Connect the girl to a good obstetrician
(b) Help find some dirt on the father mentioned in #156
(c) Pay for the girl's abortion
(d) Give Tom a job so he can marry the girl

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Jack's marriage?

2. Who does Jack marry after Anne rejects him?

3. What does Anne ask Jack to show her?

4. What does Lucy think about Tom?

5. What does Willie tell Adam about the hospital plans?

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