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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Hamper discovered late one morning, approximately how many employees did GM plan to lay off?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 7500.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 3000.

2. Why was Hamper proud to build a suburban for the celebrity Louise Mandrell?
(a) He wanted to make her suburban special.
(b) He hoped to meet her one day.
(c) He adored her music.
(d) He had never known who bought the vehicles he built.

3. If a person had to wait in the chairs along the edges of the unemployment office, what did Hamper recommend that he do?
(a) Come back another day.
(b) Call his wife to say he'd be home the following Tuesday.
(c) Cause a scene so he'd be put at the front of the line.
(d) Put a stop on his mail delivery.

4. How did management generally run the factory?
(a) Every rule must be followed completely.
(b) Follow the letter of the law but not necessarily the spirit.
(c) Any employee who's a favorite can do whatever he wants.
(d) Hear no evil, see no evil.

5. Why did Joanie and Hamper get married when she became pregnant?
(a) Abortion and adoption were unheard-of in their religious circle.
(b) Hamper wanted to escape his mother's home.
(c) They were finally eighteen and able to make their own decisions.
(d) They loved each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the trickiest part of doubling-up, as Hamper and Dale did?

2. Why was Hamper expelled from his Catholic high school?

3. How was Hamper's new high school significantly different from his old one?

4. What did Hamper discover when he began to write poetry?

5. In pretending that he's competing in the Olympics, who are his opponents?

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