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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15: Thinking Small.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sam and his brother Bud go into business together and purchase outright ______________.
(a) An old Meijer store in Ruskin Heights.
(b) An old Kmart store in Ruskin Heights.
(c) An old Woolworth store in Ruskin Heights.
(d) An old Ben Franklin store in Ruskin Heights.

2. Sam credits the success of the business with what relationship?
(a) The one that the managers have with their associates.
(b) The one Sam has with his father-in-law.
(c) The one he has with his employees.
(d) The one he has with his wife.

3. What is significant about Sam's bet regarding being an Eagle Scout?
(a) He is the youngest in the state of Missouri at the time.
(b) He never became an Eagle Scout.
(c) He helped his sons become Eagle Scouts.
(d) He never truly wanted to be a Boy Scout.

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

5. It is the demand of ____________ that built Wal-Mart's success?
(a) The urban customer.
(b) The city customer.
(c) The wealthy.
(d) The small town customer.

Short Answer Questions

1. The focal point of their communications are ___________.

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

3. When the company becomes divided, behind whom do the younger guys line up?

4. Wal-Mart starts building stores quickly by establishing ___________.

5. Many people have argued that Wal-Mart has done what to the small shops in rural towns?

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