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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Hamper and Jerry's scheme for getting extra hours (pg 149)?
(a) They'd volunteer to come early but show up at the last minute.
(b) They'd take turns punching each other back into the clock while the other one took a longer lunch.
(c) They'd clean for fifteen minutes and get paid for two hours.
(d) They'd take a double lunch break.

2. What was the plot line of the movie Dave and Hamper planned to film?
(a) The history of the car assembly line.
(b) The factory as it would stand in one hundred years.
(c) The deaths of several supervisors.
(d) A day in the life of a shop-rat.

3. Why did Hamper want to wear the Howie costume head?
(a) He wanted to be the quantity control mascot.
(b) He wanted a Halloween costume.
(c) He wanted to prove he could break into any locked room.
(d) He wanted to prove that Howie was not real.

4. What was the supervisor's reaction when Hamper and Paul doubled up their jobs?
(a) He just didn't want to know where they went.
(b) He told them to stop doubling up or he'd move one of them off the Rivet Line.
(c) He didn't care as long as the work was getting done.
(d) He did not know they left.

5. While meeting the producer from 60 Minutes, why was Hamper nervous?
(a) There was a lot of light and plants.
(b) A lot of people wanted his autograph.
(c) The producer was an anxious, jittery man.
(d) He was afraid he would say the wrong thing.

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

7. What tattoo did Doug, the steering gear man, have on his arm?
(a) A rodent with the word "shop-rat" above it.
(b) The date he began working at GM in 1976.
(c) A half-naked girl.
(d) His wife's name in blue ink.

8. What was the goal of rivet hockey?
(a) To kick a rivet into a cardboard box.
(b) To kick the rivet back and forth as long as possible.
(c) To land a rivet on the rafters.
(d) To hit a coworker's shins or ankles.

9. What did Hamper do during his vacation?
(a) Went to San Francisco to visit Moore.
(b) Slept in and drank beer.
(c) Promoted his cover story for Mother Jones.
(d) Went to Chicago because he'd never been there before.

10. What two different personalities did Hank exhibit?
(a) Hard worker and slacker.
(b) Drunkard and teetotaler.
(c) Quiet employee and bossy supervisor.
(d) Pervert and saint.

11. What did Hamper find most irritating about the message board?
(a) He could not read one message before it changed to the next.
(b) It only told him uninteresting stuff he already knew.
(c) It flashed a shade of orange that he hated.
(d) It was directly in his line of vision.

12. What happened to the man who tried to kill his coworker?
(a) He was charged with attempted murder but not convicted.
(b) He was written up.
(c) He was suspended for two weeks.
(d) He was fired immediately.

13. To what did Hamper compare Dave's styled hair?
(a) An exotic bird.
(b) An old woman's nightmare.
(c) A defective suburban.
(d) The Eiffel Tower.

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

15. How much money would Hamper make writing articles for Mother Jones?
(a) $4000 per year.
(b) $2 per word.
(c) $100 per article.
(d) $850 per article.

Short Answer Questions

1. In general terms, how did Hamper feel as he drove away from GM for the last time?

2. What aggravated Hamper about his friendship with Janice?

3. How did Hamper's supervisor feel when he needed to leave work early because of his breakdown?

4. What was the primary reason that Henry Jackson, the supervisor, hated Dave?

5. When was Hamper asked for an autograph by an ambitious husband?

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