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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two, Judas Peckerwood: Prologue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dickie Pope advise Hank to do?
(a) Sue the dean.
(b) Make a list of staff in his department that are expendable.
(c) Blow everything open by going to the news media.
(d) Take an available position in another department.

2. Before he visits with his mother, Hank visits with Mr. Purty. What does he give Hank?
(a) Some very good advice about stocks.
(b) Three hundred dollars.
(c) A pair of gag glasses with a nose attached.
(d) An old set of rosary beads.

3. What does Hank see, that he had bought when he was a boy, in his mother's basement when he is getting her suitcase for her?
(a) The dog collar.
(b) A dog bed.
(c) A dog toy.
(d) A dog brush.

4. Bodie wants to know about Hank's meeting with Dickie Pope. What does she advise him to do?
(a) To stay on the side of the teacher's union.
(b) To make the college a female-only institution.
(c) To support a teacher walkout.
(d) To stay on the side of the administration.

5. What was one reason the university was happy to hire Devereaux Sr.?
(a) He had the best credentials of the candidates.
(b) He was willing to work for a small salary.
(c) He did not need a faculty house to live in.
(d) He had a very respected academic reputation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which university was William Henry Devereaux offered a position at, after he left his family?

2. Why does he think his father might have had this affliction?

3. What medium does Campbell Wheemer like to use as a teaching tool?

4. Why is Hank's colleague Teddy driving him home after a staff meeting in Chapter 1?

5. In Chapter 10, Hank plays racquetball with his colleague, Tony Coniglia, and then they walk across campus. Where do they see a television crew?

(see the answer key)

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