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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: It Takes the Hair Right Off Your Bean.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the late 1920s, what are medical examiners noticing?
(a) Decreases in lung cancer in the general population.
(b) Decreases in cigarette smoking.
(c) Increases in babies with low birth weights.
(d) Increases in lung cancer in the general population.

2. From what angle do many anti-cigarette movements attack smoking?
(a) The health angle.
(b) The side-effects angle.
(c) The moral angle.
(d) The cost angle.

3. What do most Virginians expect the Revolutionary War to erase?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Their debts from England.
(c) Their hatred of England.
(d) Their tie to tobacco.

4. What are extremely rare in America in the 1800s?
(a) Home-grown tobacco.
(b) Hand-rolled cigarettes.
(c) Brand-name products.
(d) Generic products.

5. What has a small tobacco manufacturing company in Durham after the Civil War thriving?
(a) Bull Durham's inheritance.
(b) Bull Durham's resourcefulness.
(c) Buck's resourcefulness.
(d) Buck's large inheritance.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Columbus arrives in America, what does he discover about tobacco?

2. What do magazines describe?

3. What other segments of the industry is Duke buying out?

4. What custom becomes very common in the United States throughout the 1800s?

5. What happens when a major anti-smoking advocate, Lucy Gaston, dies?

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