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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long had Jack and Anne been falling in love?
(a) 10 years
(b) Six months
(c) For most of their lives
(d) 20 years

2. Why does Duffy want Gummy Larson to do the construction job on the hospital?
(a) Because he submits the lowest bid
(b) Because he has good business references
(c) To employ Duffy's son-in-law
(d) To sell out his old boss, MacMurfee

3. What does Jack recall during the trip?
(a) The years when he, Adam and Anne were inseparable
(b) His college years
(c) His summers at the Landing
(d) Playing Minor League Baseball

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

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

6. What does Willie say about interfering in the management of the hospital?
(a) He has not intention of interfering.
(b) He will be a very hands-on administrator.
(c) He will only want to know bottom line results.
(d) He will hold monthly update meetings.

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

8. What happens to Mortimer L. Littlepaugh?
(a) He is hit by a bus and dies.
(b) He has a heart attack and dies.
(c) He falls from a fifth story hotel window and dies.
(d) He is in a car accident and dies.

9. What does Anne do when her father becomes an invalid?
(a) She puts him in a long-term care facility.
(b) She sends him to live with relatives.
(c) She takes care of him until he dies.
(d) She hires a full-time nurse to care for him.

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

11. What leads Jack to believe that Judge Irwin got a huge influx of cash at some point?
(a) The judge refurnishes his home in antiques.
(b) The judge builds a brand new home.
(c) The judge pays off his $44,000 mortgage in 1914.
(d) The judge buys priceless art.

12. How does Jack find out about what happened between Adam and Coffee?
(a) Anne tells him.
(b) The governor tells him
(c) Coffee tells him.
(d) Judge Irwin tells him.

13. What does Willie consider the new hospital to be?
(a) A monument to himself
(b) A nuisance
(c) A necessity for the state
(d) A money pit

14. What happens to Willie and Lucy's son, Tom?
(a) He goes to the prom with his dream girl.
(b) He wrecks his expensive sports car.
(c) He gets into the college of his choice.
(d) He gets all A's on his report card.

15. What does Anne ask Jack to show her?
(a) The papers about Judge Irwin and Governor Stanton
(b) The results of his blood tests
(c) Pictures of his new apartment
(d) The architectural renderings of the new hospital

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucy want Tom to do?

2. What does MacMurfree offer to do?

3. What is the best approach to secure the answer to #114?

4. What does Gummy want from Adam?

5. Where does Anne live after her father's death?

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