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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) Takes Cass with him
(c) Gets Cass a job in a bank
(d) Sends for her at the holidays

2. Who do the city commissioners want to get the contract?
(a) Dolph Pillsbury
(b) Jeffers Construction Company
(c) Burke's Brick & Tile Company
(d) J.H. Moore

3. Who recommended the school for Cass?
(a) Jefferson Davis
(b) Robert E. Lee
(c) Abraham Lincoln
(d) Ulysses S. Grant

4. What happens during the next election for governor?
(a) Will is soundly defeated.
(b) Willie is elected.
(c) Willie declines to run.
(d) Willie runs but does not accept the position.

5. Why does Annabelle sell Phebe, her waiting maid?
(a) Because she saw Annabelle shoot her husband.
(b) Because Phebe knows about Annabelle's husband's ring on Cass' finger.
(c) Because Annabelle wants a younger maid in the house.
(d) Because Phebe had set fire to the bedroom drapes with a candle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was like a second father to Jack after Jack's father left?

2. What does Willie do after he loses the election?

3. Why does Willie lose when he runs for reelection?

4. What does Willie tell Jack that he is going to build?

5. Who are Willie and his entourage visiting at a farm?

Short Essay Questions

1. Jack is not the only character undergoing a radical shift in perspective. What happens to Willie after the football game injury which paralyzes his son, Tom?

2. Why is the move to hire Adam Stanton as the administrator of Willie's new hospital so out of character for Willie?

3. How does the author begin the story in the present time of 1936?

4. What is the author's purpose of sending Jack on a road trip?

5. Explain Anne's pattern of not committing to any permanent relationship in her life.

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

7. How does Willie re-enter political life?

8. What twist of fate changes public perception of Willie Stark?

9. How does Jack come to learn about the Mastern family?

10. What does the new hospital symbolize for Willie?

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