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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Bouncing Back.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sam feel never being on a losing team helped him?
(a) It helps him not trust losers.
(b) It makes him never want to be a loser.
(c) It helps him trust others to be losers.
(d) It helps him believe that he can always win.

2. Why does Sam realize he must get a career job and accepts a job from JC Penney?
(a) He needs money.
(b) He no longer wants to continue going to school.
(c) He cannot afford to go to Wharton School of Finance in Pennsylvania.
(d) He cannot afford to go to Harvard Law.

3. He learns from a very early age that children should do what?
(a) Be seen and not heard.
(b) Be responsible for contributing to their family just as much as the adults and should not be considered 'takers."
(c) Be ignored.
(d) Be pampered.

4. Sam's appreciation for the dollar is further ingrained when he meets ______________.
(a) His wife's father, L.S. Robson.
(b) His uncle, L.S. Robson.
(c) His wife.
(d) His first boss.

5. Sam enlists the help of Charlie Baum, whom he met ______________.
(a) While working at JC Penney.
(b) In high school.
(c) While in college.
(d) While working with the Ben Franklin store.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the children have just as high a stake in the family business as their parents?

2. Sam's father, Thomas Gibson Walton, is a very hard worker who was later remembered for _____________.

3. Sam believes that he was over-blessed with the traits of ____________.

4. Sam was born in ___________.

5. Sam starts to hear about discounting companies. He knows that discounting is the way of the future but is fully immersed in what?

(see the answer key)

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