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

2. What does Cass learn from Gilbert?
(a) How to order wine in a restaurant
(b) How to speak French
(c) How to manage a plantation
(d) How to ride a horse

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the situation regarding a brick kiln and the bricks Moore would use on the awarded job?

2. With what married woman did Cass become involved at Transylvania?

3. What happens when Jack visits his father in his small apartment now?

4. What does Willie tell Jack to do?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anne give Jack as her reasons for having the affair with Willie?

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

3. How does Willie's standard manipulative behavior exhibit in Chapter 8?

4. What does Jack's father mean when he shouts "Foulness" when Jack mentions Judge Irwin's name?

5. How is Willie's physical presence described by the author?

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

7. Which of the Mastern family members holds special appeal for Jack?

8. What is the reason that Willie's wife, Lucy, is leaving him?

9. Who was Jack find was the unexpected instigator in the deaths of Adam and Willie?

10. What happens in Chapter 8 to make Adam want to resign as director of the hospital?

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