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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Wynn when he first visited Las Vegas?

2. How much did Howard Hughes pay for the Frontier Hotel?

3. Wynn has claimed that he would give up everything in order to _____________________.

4. In what year did Wynn open the Golden Nugget in Atlantic City?

5. How many spectators gathered to watch the destruction of the hotel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Las Vegas like when Wynn started going there in the 1950s?

2. Why did Steve Wynn have footage of the Dunes destruction filmed?

3. Describe Steve Wynn's charmed childhood.

4. When did young Steve Wynn first visit Las Vegas and what were his impressions?

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

6. What hotel would be built in the place vacated by the Dunes?

7. Why did the authorities typically not arrest anyone for operating bingo halls or playing bingo?

8. What had the Dunes signified in Las Vegas?

9. When was the Dunes Hotel and Casino and Las Vegas destroyed?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Substance abuse seemed to be an unnamed character in the book. How pervasive was the abuse? Why did it have such a prevalent place in Wynn's life? How did it affect him? Explain how an inanimate object or characteristic can be a character.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the role of women in America in the 1970s and 1980s. What precedents did they feel compelled to follow? What restrictions did they have? What freedoms did they have that 21st century women do not have? What belief system about women was evident in how Wynn's wife led her life? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

The theme of struggling with personal identity was an important one in this book. Describe how it extends through setting, character and issues and provide examples for each.

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