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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Grand Inquisitors.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With the rise of the industrialists and the trusts that followed, what does the United States Congress start looking at limiting?
(a) The power of the federal government in the 1980 and 1890s.
(b) Business power in the 1880s and 1890s.
(c) Business power in the 1980s and 1890s.
(d) The power of the federal government in the 1880s and 1890s.

2. Enlistees could be _____________; they just had to be healthy at the start of the study.
(a) Non-smokers.
(b) Cancerous.
(c) Smokers.
(d) Addicts.

3. From what angle do many anti-cigarette movements attack smoking?
(a) The cost angle.
(b) The health angle.
(c) The moral angle.
(d) The side-effects angle.

4. What is the outcome of an antitrust lawsuit against the major cigarette companies of collusion to fix tobacco prices in 1941?
(a) It was somewhat successful.
(b) The case was thrown out.
(c) It succeeded in convicting them.
(d) It failed to convict them.

5. What creates very bad publicity for R.J Reynolds?
(a) Adviertisements are near geared towards men.
(b) Clay Williams orders a price increase from fourteen to fifteen cents per pack.
(c) Clay Williams does not have enough cigarettes made, and stores run out quickly.
(d) Several people die immediately from smoking his cigarettes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the massive (over a million member) CPS-1 study come in showing?

2. How long does this committee work in relative secrecy?

3. What has a small tobacco manufacturing company in Durham after the Civil War thriving?

4. How does the TIRC respond?

5. What is happening by 1901?

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