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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Willie want of Judge Irwin?
(a) He wants the judge to contribute to his campaign funds.
(b) He wants the judge to support a man Willie has chosen for a senate nomination.
(c) He wants the judge to campaign for him in the next election.
(d) He wants the judge to endorse him in the next election.

2. Willie Stark is known as ______________.
(a) The Boss
(b) The Big Guy
(c) The Man
(d) Colonel

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

4. How is Dolph Pillsbury connected to the troubles with the brick kiln?
(a) Pillsbury used to do the accounting for the kiln company.
(b) Pillsbury used to make bricks for the kiln company.
(c) Pillsbury's brother-in-law owns the kiln and Pillsbury is suspected of getting kickbacks on the school job.
(d) Pillsbury is a major investor in the kiln business.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Willie tell Jack to do?

2. What does Willie tell White after White accuses Willie of impunity?

3. What happens when Willie runs for the governorship in 1930?

4. In a flashback, what does the author reveal about Jack's father?

5. How many husbands has Mrs. Burden had?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Willie react when his assistant, Sadie Burke, tells him, "Judge Irwin has come for Callahan."

2. What crisis is occurring in the governor's office when Jack returns to town?

3. How do Willie's problem-solving tactics emerge after his son, Tom, has a car accident?

4. When is Jack able to leave California and return home?

5. What is the major point of contention between Willie and Lucy about their son, Tom?

6. How does the author indicate that Willie is against drinking alcohol?

7. What leads Jack to believe that the judge had more secret financial dealings?

8. Explain the literary technique of flashback that the author uses in Chapter 1.

9. Explain how Judge Irwin's death grants Jack his independence.

10. Compare and contrast the funerals for Willie and Adam.

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