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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What activity did Hamper want to do with Roger Smith, the company president?
(a) Golf.
(b) Hike.
(c) Drink beer.
(d) Bowl.

2. 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.

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

4. 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) The buildings were too fancy.
(c) He thought the businessmen would look down on him.
(d) He was never sure how to act.

5. Why does Hamper want to avoid his grandfather at the family reunion?
(a) His grandfather thinks he's his son rather than his grandson.
(b) His grandfather thinks he needs to get another job.
(c) His grandfather never worked as a shoprat so he can't understand Hamper's life.
(d) His grandfather would rail him about unemployment benefits.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Hamper in Chapter 10, why did GM not allow the NBC film crew into the factory?

3. When Hamper is contacted by The Wall Street Journal, what does his boss Gino call the paper?

4. What did Hamper find most irritating about the message board?

5. What was the goal of rivet hockey?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conversation did Hamper and his grandfather have during the family reunion? How does this fittingly illustrate the difference in their generations?

2. What was the purpose of Hamper's food matching game (pgs 78-79)? What effect does the game have to the writing of this scene?

3. By the time Janice moved to a different area of the factory, how had she changed? How is this different from what might be expected of a woman working that job?

4. How did Hamper's fellow factory workers respond to the article in the Wall Street Journal? Given the tone of this part of the story, where did Hamper actually get his happiness?

5. What new vehicle was the factory hired to build? How was this, written in Hamper's account of life, a sign of the times?

6. What kind of place was Mark's Lounge? How was this place exactly what Hamper needed?

7. At the beginning of Chapter 5, how did Hamper portray the employees of the Michigan Employment Security Commission? Is this a fair picture?

8. What kind of supervisor was Gino? How did Hamper respond to his leadership?

9. According to Hamper, why does the reading public not want to read about the working man? Is this a fair assessment?

10. How did the men on the Rivet Line deal with the supervisor sent in to replace Gino? How was this a sign that they are powerful?

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