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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. When Hamper had to go into corporate offices to request Alex's visitor pass, why was he nervous?
(a) The offices felt like tombs.
(b) He thought the businessmen would look down on him.
(c) He was never sure how to act.
(d) The buildings were too fancy.

2. While reading The Wall Street Journal article, what did Hamper realize?
(a) The average American was not interested in the working class survivors.
(b) The working class survivors were the backbone of America.
(c) The working class survivors were a pitiful lot.
(d) He would rather be a writer than a factory worker.

3. What was the most unusual thing about Bob-A-Lou?
(a) He had been married five times.
(b) He wore decent clothes to work.
(c) He never drank.
(d) He never cursed.

4. What happened when Hamper was called in to see the guidance counselor at school?
(a) The counselor could only recommend blue-collar jobs.
(b) The counselor could not find a suitable job for him.
(c) Hamper was too stoned to go.
(d) Hamper hated all the job choices that the counselor presented.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the rationale behind the "shopera" that Dave and Hamper composed?

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

3. Why did Hamper cringe at the idea of Bob-A-Lou in love with the cafeteria cashier?

4. At the beginning of Chapter Four, when Hamper and Bob-A-Lou went to the "State of the Factory" address, what were they given?

5. Approximately how long was Hamper unemployed before being called back to work?

(see the answer key)

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