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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the so called "tar czar?"
(a) Ronald McDonald.
(b) Raymond Meijer.
(c) Richard Meyer.
(d) Robert Meyner.

2. Why would some doctors refuse patients for surgery?
(a) If they refused to stop smoking.
(b) If they did not have enough money.
(c) If they had been a smoker.
(d) If they did not have insurance.

3. What does Philip Morris, under the supervision of Otway Chalkley, do during the war when faced with leaf supply shortages?
(a) Continues to ship unwrapped packs of cigarettes at wartime levels.
(b) Merges with companies in the food industry.
(c) Stops production.
(d) Only packages a minimum number of cigarettes.

4. What began by being manufactured mainly in Spain but quickly spread to its colonies and conquests?
(a) Cigars.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Plug.
(d) Chew.

5. What is questioned in 1941?
(a) How many companies were making cigarettes.
(b) The various claims the companies advertised.
(c) The cost of cigarettes.
(d) To whom the companies were trying to market the cigarettes.

6. What theory is published in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN?
(a) How smoking overworks the lungs.
(b) How smoking is a dirty habit.
(c) How smoking is good for the heart.
(d) How smoking overworked the heart.

7. 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 dispute, ignore, or belittle medical claims against it.
(d) A concerted effort to work with the medical community.

8. Who is one of the prominent leaders at Jamestown who is instrumental in founding the American domestic tobacco market?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) John Rolfe.
(c) Christopher Columbus.
(d) George Washington.

9. How is the company's reputation tarnished?
(a) When it has no cigarettes for purchase.
(b) When it attempts to rewrap stale, returned packs.
(c) When it merges with a health food company.
(d) When it does not have enough cigarettes for its customers.

10. How is an article damning smoking as unhealthy quickly lost?
(a) In the power struggle between pro-smoking and anti-smoking campaigns.
(b) By the influential tobacco industry.
(c) In the ending of the Great Depression.
(d) In the shuffle of wartime preparedness.

11. What is happening by 1901?
(a) Indiana, Florida, and North Carolina made cigarettes illegal.
(b) Idaho, Kentucky, and New York made cigarettes illegal.
(c) Illinois, Arizona, and New Hampshire made cigarettes illegal.
(d) Iowa, Tennesse, and North Dakota have made cigarettes illegal, and more states are looking at the option.

12. How many cases of lung cancer are reported In 1940?
(a) Over five hundred.
(b) Over five thousand.
(c) Over seven hundred.
(d) Over seven thousand.

13. What happens soon after the breakup of American Tobacco Company?
(a) R.J. Reynolds begins R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
(b) R.J. Reynolds is back in control of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
(c) R.J. Reynolds loses control of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
(d) R.J. Reynolds give control of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company to ATC's CEO.

14. What does the House bill include?
(a) The warning asked by the American Medical Association, with strong language.
(b) The warning asked for by the American Medical Association, with the mildest language.
(c) The warning asked for by the tobacco industry, with strong language.
(d) The warning asked for by the tobacco industry, with the mildest of language possible.

15. What is a lighter leaf grown in the Piedmont area of Virginia and North Carolina nicknamed?
(a) The bright leaf.
(b) The sweet leaf.
(c) The green leaf.
(d) The light leaf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the Great Depression wanes?

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

3. What is commissioned in 1962 and includes a very diverse group of doctors, chemists, and even a statistician?

4. Who becomes a leading industrialist and leads Winston in sewer and rail upgrades?

5. By 1898, what does Duke control?

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