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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. At the beginning of the Epilogue, what sport was Hamper playing?
(a) Croquet.
(b) Miniature golf.
(c) Golf.
(d) Basketball.

5. When the Good Times Lounge sued Hamper, how much money did the owner want?
(a) No money but a written apology.
(b) Five thousand dollars.
(c) Fifteen thousand dollars.
(d) Ten thousand dollars.

6. How did Hamper prepare for his interview for the Mother Jones cover story?
(a) Ate a big dinner and slept eight hours.
(b) Reviewed the articles he had written in the past year.
(c) Stayed up all night and got drunk.
(d) Got a haircut and shave at a barbershop.

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

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

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

10. If a person had to wait in the chairs along the edges of the unemployment office, what did Hamper recommend that he do?
(a) Come back another day.
(b) Call his wife to say he'd be home the following Tuesday.
(c) Put a stop on his mail delivery.
(d) Cause a scene so he'd be put at the front of the line.

11. When did Hamper experience his last breakdown?
(a) November 1995.
(b) February 1992.
(c) June 1990.
(d) April 1988.

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

13. While visiting the factory, what did Moore really want to do?
(a) Talk to Howie Makem.
(b) Talk to all Hamper's coworkers.
(c) Hit a couple rivets.
(d) Drink a beer with the guys.

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

15. What victory did Hamper enjoy, though the Olympic gold medal wasn't real?
(a) He was working ahead so that he could take a break.
(b) The clock hand moved a couple more minutes.
(c) He had beaten a personal record for one truck.
(d) He was the fastest worker on the Rivet Line.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Gino moved from his position as supervisor on the Rivet Line?

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

3. Why was Jackson afraid of Hamper?

4. What was the subject matter of Dave and Hamper's "shopera" (pg 195)

5. What did Hamper do during his vacation?

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