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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Vance describe having a fight with Usha after having performed badly at an interview for a firm during their second year of law school?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) San Francisco, California.
(c) Seattle, Washington.
(d) Napa, California.

2. Vance notes in Chapter 13 that if Usha had possessed a terrible personality, she would have made an excellent heroine in a novel by what author?
(a) Ron Selby.
(b) Ayn Rand.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) William Julius Wilson.

3. In what grade in school was Vance when his grandmother forbade him to hang out with friends who were smoking weed?
(a) Eighth grade.
(b) Ninth grade.
(c) Seventh grade.
(d) Tenth grade.

4. Vance states in Chapter 15 that in a given year how many children will spend time in foster care in the U.S.?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 640,000.
(c) 920,000.
(d) 500,000.

5. How long do students study to earn a degree at Yale Law School?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 4 years.

6. How many members were in Vance's Marine Corps boot camp platoon by the end of boot camp?
(a) 25.
(b) 38.
(c) 69.
(d) 86.

7. Where did Vance attend Marine Corps boot camp?
(a) Andersonville, California.
(b) New Brunswick, New Jersey.
(c) Parris Island, South Carolina.
(d) Peoria, South Carolina.

8. Who is Bonnie's mother?
(a) Aunt Jamie.
(b) Aunt Wee.
(c) Aunt Katie.
(d) Aunt Jeane.

9. Who is the Yale contracts professor that Vance thanks in the Acknowledgments?
(a) Jennifer McGuffey.
(b) William Julius Wilson.
(c) Amy Chua.
(d) Ron Selby.

10. What is one of the central themes addressed in Hillbilly Elegy?
(a) The American Dream.
(b) Incest.
(c) Immigration.
(d) Murder.

11. What month was it when Vance went into a military recruiter's office for the Marine Corps?
(a) May.
(b) April.
(c) March.
(d) June.

12. Why does Vance assert that Januaries were often depressing during his childhood in the Conclusion?
(a) The endless rain.
(b) Tax refunds were not enough to cover Christmas gifts.
(c) Christmas had passed and school was back in session.
(d) The endless snow.

13. When did Vance graduate from Ohio State University?
(a) August, 2009.
(b) September, 2003.
(c) January, 2008.
(d) March, 2010.

14. What are referred to as the mythical "top three" law schools in Chapter 12?
(a) Yale, Harvard, and Stanford.
(b) Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford.
(c) Yale, Princeton, and Brown.
(d) Rutgers, Princeton, and Yale.

15. At what food chain (that was once his grandmother's and his favorite) does Vance describe taking a Yale friend to in Chapter 12?
(a) Sonic.
(b) Steak Shack.
(c) Cracker Barrel.
(d) Western Sizzlin'.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom in his family does Vance compare his own behavior when dealing with Usha in the early months of their relationship in Chapter 14?

2. Who is the former British prime minister who came to speak at Yale when Vance arrived?

3. What amount of money does Vance describe as unreasonable as a salary in Middletown, but the salary that graduates of Yale Law School expected to earn in their first year out of school in Chapter 12?

4. What did Aunt Wee score on the quiz for ACE that Vance gave her?

5. What nickname did Vance's group of friends in the constitutional law seminar at Yale call themselves?

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