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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. What do most Virginians expect the Revolutionary War to erase?
(a) Their hatred of England.
(b) Their tie to tobacco.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Their debts from England.

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

3. In the late 1950s, what does the cigarette industry (through TIRC) begin?
(a) A concerted effort to improve their cigarettes.
(b) A concerted effort to take nicotine out of cigarettes.
(c) A concerted effort to work with the medical community.
(d) A concerted effort to dispute, ignore, or belittle medical claims against it.

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

5. Who becomes a leading industrialist and leads Winston in sewer and rail upgrades?
(a) Robert James Reed.
(b) Richard Joshua Reynolds.
(c) Riley Joseph Reynor.
(d) Ronald Jonathon Rickle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is a more 'manly' image for Marlboro created?

2. With the rise of the industrialists and the trusts that followed, what does the United States Congress start looking at limiting?

3. What other segments of the industry is Duke buying out?

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

5. Why would some doctors refuse patients for surgery?

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