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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What plans did Hamper and Dale have together for their careers?
(a) Move up into management.
(b) Get injured and earn disability pay most of their lives.
(c) Stay in their tasks for thirty years.
(d) Gradually move into a less demanding assembly line.

2. In the summer and fall of 1977, how many hours a day did Hamper work?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Nine.
(c) Eight.
(d) Fourteen.

3. Why did Hamper make the honor roll his sophomore year of high school?
(a) He was still motivated from his freshman year.
(b) His father was intimidating him into getting good grades.
(c) He had plenty of time to study while babysitting his younger siblings.
(d) He decided he never wanted to work in a factory.

4. What was the trickiest part of doubling-up, as Hamper and Dale did?
(a) Punching in.
(b) Keeping up to speed.
(c) Explaining your partner's absence to the supervisor.
(d) Punching out.

5. What did Roy eventually do to his pet mouse?
(a) Trapped it in the wheel well he was constructing.
(b) Set it free from the cardboard box.
(c) Incinerated it with the welder's torch.
(d) Stepped on it.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Hamper began high school, what was his only plan for his life?

2. Why was Hamper reinstated as a student in the school?

3. Why did Joanie and Hamper get married when she became pregnant?

4. What was Glen's dream job?

5. According to Hamper, why did the nuns not care that he was a poor student?

(see the answer key)

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