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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Hamper's great-grandfather begin working in the car factory?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1930.

2. What aggravated Hamper about his friendship with Janice?
(a) She acted too differently from the male employees.
(b) She wanted to hide their friendship from her husband.
(c) Their coworkers assumed they were sleeping together.
(d) She insisted that she could do everything a man could.

3. What happened one day when Hamper left journalism class on drugs?
(a) He drove the wrong car out of the parking lot.
(b) He could not figure out how to turn the car on.
(c) He hit a parked car.
(d) He hit a tuba player in the marching band.

4. What did Hamper discover when he began to write poetry?
(a) Girls liked him.
(b) The teachers liked him better.
(c) He could escape the monotony of life.
(d) He got better grade.

5. What racket did Louie have going at work?
(a) Making rookies do all his work for him.
(b) Getting paid for forty hours when he worked thirty.
(c) Secretly selling cigarettes down the assembly line.
(d) Secretly selling alcohol down the assembly line.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hamper, what percentage of Flint was linked to the auto factories?

2. What was the most unusual thing about Bob-A-Lou?

3. How had Hamper imagined his father's work before he saw it?

4. How did Hamper's maternal grandfather live?

5. What was the trickiest part of doubling-up, as Hamper and Dale did?

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