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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 9-10, Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Hamper's favorite way to pass time at work?
(a) Pretend his job was an Olympic event.
(b) Laugh at Hank's obvious personality swings.
(c) Play pranks on the men around him.
(d) Chain-smoke Chestertons and get drunk.

2. Why did Hamper's dad often denounce African-Americans?
(a) He was genuinely racist.
(b) He had an on-going feud with an African-American man at work.
(c) He wanted to deflect his guilt onto someone else.
(d) He wanted to raise his children to be white supremacists.

3. At the beginning of Chapter Six, as Hamper explains, what do the rednecks on the Rivet Line collect?
(a) Beer caps.
(b) Broken rivet heads.
(c) Banana stickers.
(d) Sick days.

4. What did Hamper think was Dan-O's most amusing prank?
(a) The crucified wallet.
(b) The suburban shuffle.
(c) The psychedelic porn kaleidoscope.
(d) The charging tarantula trap.

5. What happened as the Rivet Line began to build army trucks?
(a) They were constantly missing pieces.
(b) The trucks took less time to build than the suburbans did.
(c) The trucks took twice as long to build as the regular suburbans.
(d) The men learned very slowly how to build the trucks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the compromise that allowed Alex into the factory?

2. Why did Hamper not want to write about being a shop-rat, in an article for the Flint Voice?

3. While reading The Wall Street Journal article, what did Hamper realize?

4. If a person had to wait in the chairs along the edges of the unemployment office, what did Hamper recommend that he do?

5. What incentive did management offer if the assembly line kept the quality high?

(see the answer key)

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