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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 13 | Part 1, Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to The Ford County Times?
(a) The owner has a heart attack
(b) It goes bankrupt
(c) It burns down
(d) It gets sued

2. What did Esau instruct his children to do before they left home?
(a) Send home money
(b) Write once a week to their mother
(c) Call once a week
(d) Write once a month to their motherc

3. What is Willie's next story about in Chapter 9?
(a) Rhonda's family
(b) Danny Padgitt's sordid history
(c) The bomb
(d) Rhonda's neighbors

4. What had been Willie Traynor's dream?
(a) Working for world news
(b) Working in politics
(c) Traveling the world as a journalist
(d) Coving the war efforts

5. How does Willie describe the newspaper office?
(a) Run down and falling apart
(b) Prehistoric
(c) Smelly and in need of new paint
(d) Old and cluttered

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does Willie run that many of his staff members are not happy with?

2. How old is Willie when he takes over ownership of the paper?

3. What does Willie Traynor learn about that makes him decide to go to work in a small town paper?

4. What happens to the newspaper after Willie's second story in Chapter 6?

5. Why does Baggy say the family has decided to leave the trial in their hometown?

(see the answer key)

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