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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Willie Stark's job when Jack Burden first meets him?
(a) Assistant District Attorney
(b) Court Reporter
(c) County Treasurer
(d) County Prosecutor

2. How does Willie enter politics again?
(a) Willie is appointed to his old position of county treasurer.
(b) He stumps for a congressional candidate who is running against the candidate who is a friend of Dolph Pillsbury's.
(c) Willie is elected to the school board.
(d) Willie runs for mayor during the next election.

3. What surprising twist occurs at Willie's next speech?
(a) Willie resigns because his wife cannot withstand the rigors of the campaign.
(b) Willie resigns before he is blackmailed.
(c) Willie resigns because he gets some bad medical news.
(d) Willie tells the crowd about how he has been duped and he is resigning in order to support MacMurfee.

4. What does Willie tell Jack to do?
(a) Make sure Willie is front page news tomorrow
(b) Find his own way back to town
(c) Find a way to influence the judge
(d) Find something to blackmail Judge Irwin

5. To what year does the story flash back?
(a) 1915
(b) 1940
(c) 1922
(d) 1896

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary technique does the author use to take the story back in time again?

2. What kinds of stories are surfacing at the newspaper office, The Chronicle?

3. How did Tiny Duffy get his name?

4. Why do people come to hear Willie speak?

5. Willie Stark is known as ______________.

(see the answer key)

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