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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. What do the Walton kids all have to do?
(a) Jobs.
(b) Play instruments.
(c) Study.
(d) Study business.

2. Why does Sam realize he must get a career job and accepts a job from JC Penney?
(a) He needs money.
(b) He no longer wants to continue going to school.
(c) He cannot afford to go to Harvard Law.
(d) He cannot afford to go to Wharton School of Finance in Pennsylvania.

3. Why does Helen want four children by the time she is thirty?
(a) So she will have plenty of time with her grandchildren.
(b) She needs something to do.
(c) So she will have plenty of people to care for her when she is old.
(d) She does not want to be lonely.

4. The biggest challenge Wal-Mart has right now at this growth period is what?
(a) Buying health and beauty aids at a lower price and staying stocked.
(b) Keeping the electronic section stocked.
(c) Buying food procucts at a low price and staying stocked.
(d) Attracting customers.

5. When he is 14, Sam saves a boy from ____________.
(a) Drowning.
(b) Starving to death.
(c) A wild boar.
(d) Getting hit by a car.

Short Answer Questions

1. Back in the 1960s, with what was Sam more concerned, rather than quality?

2. What would Sam do when he would drop Alice off at a horse show?

3. How do the children have just as high a stake in the family business as their parents?

4. The one mistake that Helen cannot forgive Sam for _________________.

5. Right away, Sam looks for other store opportunities and drives to Fayetteville to find a store whose only competitor is _________.

(see the answer key)

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