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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Jack come in contact with Cass Mastern?
2. Why does the Attorney General, Hugh Miller resign his position?
3. What does Willie do after he loses the election?
4. What is the situation regarding a brick kiln and the bricks Moore would use on the awarded job?
5. What story does Jack's editor want Jack to get?
Short Essay Questions
1. What leads Jack to believe that the judge had more secret financial dealings?
2. Does Jack have any contact with his real father now?
3. Explain how the novel ends on a small glimmer of hope.
4. Jack takes an abrupt, unannounced trip to California after learning of Anne's affair with Willie. What consumes Jack's thoughts as he drives cross-country?
5. What role did Judge Irwin play in Jack's childhood?
6. How does Judge Irwin react when he sees Jack and Willie at his home?
7. What is it that makes Adam accept the position of director of the hospital?
8. How does Willie react when his assistant, Sadie Burke, tells him, "Judge Irwin has come for Callahan."
9. What negative trait of Willie's is verified by Willie's behavior in the White impeachment scandal?
10. How does Jack come to learn about the Mastern family?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
If Jack's mother has always been in love with Judge Irwin, why didn't she marry him, especially when she became pregnant? Why would Jack's mother suffer through a string of inferior men as husbands? What price did she pay in order to keep Jack ignorant about the identity of his real father?
Essay Topic 2
Explain why the fateful meeting of Willy and Adam in the courthouse had to happen. Why did the author let both characters die? Did he not want to take a stand on whether good can triumph over evil? Or is it because no one can be totally good just as no one can be totally bad?
Essay Topic 3
Why is Judge Irwin so adamant about not endorsing Willie's senatorial candidate in Chapter 1? Does the judge have guilt or remorse for his own behavior in this area? Is the judge afraid to even broach the subject of inappropriate alliances because of what might be discovered about his own past?
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