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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. Is this sharing of information considered a success?
(a) Yes.
(b) Rarely.
(c) Sometimes.
(d) No.

2. Helen had to help Sam sign the notes to secure all the money and by the time it was ready, what had happened?
(a) They had borrowed some money.
(b) They had spent all of their own money.
(c) They had borrowed as much as they possibly could.
(d) They had decided to borrow money.

3. Sam would walk into some of the big discount retailers and ask to speak with their top executives, introducing himself as "Sam Walton from Bentonville." Why would he do this?
(a) To get a job at one of these stores.
(b) To pick their brains about how their operations were run.
(c) To make friends.
(d) To let the competition know who he is.

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

5. What would Sam do when he would drop Alice off at a horse show?
(a) He would help her get ready.
(b) He would sit at the top of the grand stand and cheer her on.
(c) He would sit in the car and wait for her to finish.
(d) He would sneak off to check out other stores for competition.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Ever since Sam took out his first bank loan, he has not been comfortable or happy with ___________.

3. Sam is always looking for new and different ways to do things and takes great pleasure in ___________.

4. At the time, nobody wants to invest in the idea with Bud putting only 3 percent into it and another manager from Texas putting in 2 percent. Other than that, Sam had to come up with what percent of the financing on his own?

5. Sam and Charlie create the _______ self-service style variety store in the country and the first one in the eight-state area.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the store in Bentonville benefit Sam?

2. How do Sam and Helen feel about leaving Newport? What are their plans now?

3. How would Sam spy on Kmart?

4. With what traits does Sam say is is over-blessed? What does he do with these traits during his adolescence?

5. What is known about Sam Walton's childhood? What did he learn during this time about one's ability to make money?

6. What is taking place in the world of discount stores in 1962?

7. What does Sam do while debating the idea of going public?

8. What does Sam do when he attends the Univeristy of Missouri?

9. What does Wal-Mart have in regards to profit-sharing?

10. How did Sam treat his employees in the beginning? Why? What has he realized from this?

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