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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. What does Willie tell Jack that he is going to build?
(a) A new civic center
(b) A free hospital and health center
(c) A new state courthouse
(d) A monument in his likeness

2. Who were Jack's childhood friends?
(a) Tiny Duffy and Sugar Boy
(b) Adam and Anne Stanton
(c) Willie and Teddy Stark
(d) Sadie and Marie Burke

3. What is Willie's wife's profession?
(a) Secretary
(b) School teacher
(c) Court reporter
(d) Nurse

4. Who takes over as Jack's father after Jack's father leaves?
(a) Mr. Stark
(b) Grandfather Burden
(c) Governor Stanton
(d) Judge Irwin

5. Where do Willie and Jack go after leaving Judge Irwin?
(a) To Baton Rouge
(b) To Biloxi
(c) To Willie's farm in Mason City
(d) To Memphis

Short Answer Questions

1. What two major political factions run the state?

2. With whom did Adam and Anne Stanton live as children?

3. What do Jack and Judge Irwin make while Jack is growing up?

4. What happens to Annabelle's husband, Duncan Trice?

5. Who is Willie Stark's wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Willie's standard manipulative behavior exhibit in Chapter 8?

2. What crisis is occurring in the governor's office when Jack returns to town?

3. How does Judge Irwin react when he sees Jack and Willie at his home?

4. Jack is not the only character undergoing a radical shift in perspective. What happens to Willie after the football game injury which paralyzes his son, Tom?

5. Compare and contrast the funerals for Willie and Adam.

6. How does the author begin the story in the present time of 1936?

7. How do Willie's problem-solving tactics emerge after his son, Tom, has a car accident?

8. What conflicting information about Judge Irwin's financial history?

9. What does Anne give Jack as her reasons for having the affair with Willie?

10. What leads Jack to believe that the judge had more secret financial dealings?

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