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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: It Takes the Hair Right Off Your Bean.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has a small tobacco manufacturing company in Durham after the Civil War thriving?
(a) Bull Durham's inheritance.
(b) Buck's large inheritance.
(c) Buck's resourcefulness.
(d) Bull Durham's resourcefulness.

2. What does R.J. Reynolds dub the new brand?
(a) Camel.
(b) Virginia Slims.
(c) Marlboro.
(d) Ultra Lites.

3. What are extremely rare in America in the 1800s?
(a) Brand-name products.
(b) Hand-rolled cigarettes.
(c) Generic products.
(d) Home-grown tobacco.

4. Why does Buck open a New York plant in 1884?
(a) He has always wanted to live in New York.
(b) To try to grab hold of the immigrant market for cheap cigarettes.
(c) To try to merge with large New York companies.
(d) New York is a large city, with many wealthy smokers.

5. _______________ claim to fame is the success of his brand, Pall Mall.
(a) John's.
(b) Jim's.
(c) Gerald's.
(d) George's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What weighs over one ton and has the capacity to produce approximately 200 cigarettes per minute?

2. Why does the Army supply its World War I troops with cigarettes by the truckload?

3. By the late 1920s, what are medical examiners noticing?

4. How do two-thirds of the plug tobacco market end up in the hands of Buck Duke?

5. What is a lighter leaf grown in the Piedmont area of Virginia and North Carolina nicknamed?

(see the answer key)

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