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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 kinds of stories are surfacing at the newspaper office, The Chronicle?
(a) Stories about environmental issues
(b) Stories about segregation
(c) Stories about corruption in county courthouses
(d) Stories about prohibition
2. Cass and his brother, Gilbert, and sister, Lavinia, were born in poverty in what state?
(a) Mississippi
(b) Alabama
(c) Georgia
(d) Tennessee
3. Who does not approve of Jack working for Willie?
(a) Jack's mother, Mrs. Burden
(b) Tiny Duffy
(c) Judge Irwin
(d) Anne Stanton
4. Why is Willie's wife, Lucy, leaving Willie?
(a) Because he has covered up Byram White's crime
(b) Because Willie is having an affair
(c) Because she has fallen in love with someone else
(d) Because she cannot live in the glare of the public spotlight
5. How does Willie benefit from what happens at the school fire drill?
(a) Willie gets reelected on a special emergency vote.
(b) Willie gets to hire a new architect who is a friend of his.
(c) The people realize the corruption related to the brick quality and they should have voted for Willie.
(d) Willie is asked to work as a consultant on the rebuilding of the school.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what year does Willie first run for governor?
2. Where do Willie and Jack go after leaving Judge Irwin?
3. Of what has White been accused?
4. How is Dolph Pillsbury connected to the troubles with the brick kiln?
5. How did Cass die?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the nature of Jack's second historical project which he launches in Chapter 5?
2. What is the reason that Willie's wife, Lucy, is leaving him?
3. What does the new hospital symbolize for Willie?
4. Explain how the novel ends on a small glimmer of hope.
5. Who was Jack find was the unexpected instigator in the deaths of Adam and Willie?
6. What is it that makes Adam accept the position of director of the hospital?
7. Explain Anne's pattern of not committing to any permanent relationship in her life.
8. What had happened to Anne after she breaks up with Jack and graduates college?
9. Why does the author have Jack return home from California?
10. What happens in Chapter 8 to make Adam want to resign as director of the hospital?
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