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

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

3. What was the subject matter of Dave and Hamper's "shopera" (pg 195)
(a) The imagined lives of their supervisors.
(b) A shop-rat's life.
(c) Assembly line labor.
(d) Their lives outside the factory walls.

4. 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 flashed a shade of orange that he hated.
(c) It was directly in his line of vision.
(d) It only told him uninteresting stuff he already knew.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Hamper and Jerry's scheme for getting extra hours (pg 149)?

3. Why was the Good Times Lounge lawsuit dropped?

4. At the beginning of the Epilogue, what sport was Hamper playing?

5. What activity did Hamper want to do with Roger Smith, the company president?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the Epilogue, Hamper shows the conflict between his mindset as a shop-rat and his time outside the factory in therapy. How did he show this and which attitude was stronger in his mind?

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

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

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

6. What kind of relationship did Gino have with his men? Why did this lead to his eventual transfer away from the Rivet Line?

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

8. 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?

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

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

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