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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. How old was Wynn's father when he died?
(a) 46.
(b) 62.
(c) 55.
(d) 39.

2. What was E. Parry Thomas' profession?
(a) Realtor.
(b) Attorney.
(c) Physician.
(d) Banker.

3. To a young Steve Wynn, Las Vegas was like _________________.
(a) The frontier.
(b) Outer space.
(c) Hollywood.
(d) A pirate story.

4. From whom did Wynn's father often borrow money to pay his debts?
(a) Frank Sinatra.
(b) Frank Lucchese.
(c) Frank Goldman.
(d) Frank Luciano.

5. Who was Wynn's hair stylist?
(a) Clarence Abandano.
(b) Carmelo Abruzzo.
(c) Camilo Azzinaro.
(d) Carmine Augustino.

Short Answer Questions

1. What hotel and casino did Wynn build in Atlantic City?

2. Who was Wynn's New Jersey nemesis?

3. In what year did Howard Hughes purchase the Frontier Hotel?

4. Wynn's father was in the _________________ business.

5. By the time he was thirty, Wynn was being referred to as a Las Vegas _________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the circumstances of Mike Wynn's untimely death?

2. Who was Jerome Zarowitz and how did Wynn first encounter him?

3. What did a spectator at the Dunes' destruction compare it to?

4. What do Las Vegas newspaper readers perennially vote Steve Wynn as?

5. What were the Las Vegas dreams of Wynn's father, Mike?

6. What had the Dunes signified in Las Vegas?

7. With what event does the author begin the Prologue of the book?

8. What did the destruction of the Dunes signify for Steve Wynn and for Las Vegas as a whole?

9. Who were Louis Cappiello and Camilo Azzinaro, what was unusual about their influential positions and what was the speculation about their true functions in Wynn's enterprises?

10. Who were some of the big name players in 1950s Las Vegas and why did Mike Wynn eventually give up his dream of doing business there?

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