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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Raising a Family.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what announcement does Sam Walton start the book?
(a) He is the richest man in America.
(b) He is a poor man.
(c) He is a proud man.
(d) He is the happiest man in America.

2. Sam is about to graduate with a degree in business and has plenty of energy, but is unsure ___________.
(a) If he wants to be in business.
(b) Where his future lies.
(c) If he wants to go to graduate school.
(d) Where he wants to live.

3. To encourage family togetherness, what does Sam do?
(a) He plans family vacations every weekend.
(b) He is his sons' Boy Scout leader.
(c) The family must be home for dinner every night.
(d) His family must not go anywhere without him.

4. Sam starts to hear about discounting companies. He knows that discounting is the way of the future but is fully immersed in what?
(a) Variety stores.
(b) Franchising.
(c) Discount stores.
(d) Boutiques.

5. He decides to run for the student body president and wins by doing one important move. What is that move?
(a) He speaks to people before they speak to him.
(b) Blackmailing some of the student body.
(c) Recruiting followers.
(d) Bribing his fellow students with money or passing grades.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sam buys stores in Little Rock, Springdale, and Siloam Springs, Arkansas, as well as Neodesha and Coffeyville, ___________.

2. When Sam did not like the attention given to him and his family by the press, he put a lid on the personal information released to the public. What happened because of this reason according to Sam?

3. What do the Walton kids all have to do?

4. Phil gets a great deal on a laundry detergent like Tide, and has 18 cases sent to his store and creates the world's largest display of detergents, stacking them almost __________ feet high?

5. No matter how hard Sam's father worked or how many different jobs he had, what happened?

(see the answer key)

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