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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. Gilbert sends Lavinia to an expensive school in Atlanta and _____________________________.
(a) Sends Cass to West Point Academy
(b) Sends for her at the holidays
(c) Takes Cass with him
(d) Gets Cass a job in a bank

2. Which political faction covertly backs Willie's campaign?
(a) The Irwin faction
(b) The Harrison faction
(c) The MacMurfee faction
(d) The Stanton faction

3. What two major political factions run the state?
(a) The Stark faction and the Burden faction
(b) The Harrison faction and the MacMurfee faction
(c) The Irwin faction and the Stanton faction
(d) The Burke faction and the Stark faction

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

5. What does Willie order when everyone else orders beer?
(a) Coca-Cola
(b) Coffee
(c) Orange pop
(d) Sweet tea

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the story begin?

2. Where does Annabelle take Phebe to be sold?

3. How did Tiny Duffy get his name?

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

5. To what year does the story flash back?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Jack have any contact with his real father now?

2. What role did Judge Irwin play in Jack's childhood?

3. What is the nature of Anne Stanton's depression?

4. What purpose does Chapter 4 serve for the novel?

5. What is revealed in the literary technique does the author use at the beginning of Chapter 2?

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

7. How does Jack reason out Judge Irwin's role in his childhood?

8. Why does the author have Jack return home from California?

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

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

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