"All the King's Men" Quotations Chapters 6-10 Quiz

Answer: Jack Burden

At this point in the novel, Anne Stanton has asked Jack to meet her at Slade's in order to ask him to further persuade her brother, Adam, to take the job as administrator for the Boss's new hospital. When Anne walks in, Jack pretends to not know her, merely as a little joke.

The few moments of joking provide great juxtaposition to the serious moments that ensue in the conversation between the two former lovers.

Answer: Anne Stanton

Anne is speaking of Adam's reaction to some papers she showed him. These papers are the compilation of Jack's evidence against Judge Irwin. However, some of the papers show that Anne's and Adam's father, the former Governor Stanton, also was corrupt- he had turned a blind eye to the bribery of the Judge and had done nothing to prosecute those involved in the bribery.

These papers have a strong impact on both Adam and Anne. This knowledge makes them feel able to mix in with normality and the low values of normality.

After seeing these papers, Adam agrees to become director of the Boss's new hospital, and Anne feels less guilty about having an affair with the Boss. At the end of the chapter, she even lets Jack know of the affair.

Answer: Anne Stanton

Chapter 7 is basically an enormous flashback that reviews much of Jack's life- especially of his love life. At the point during which this quotation is said by Anne Stanton, she is 17, and Jack Burden is 21. They are going out with each other, and both think that they love each other. Anne is teasing sometimes- such as when this line is said- and serious at others.

However, the following summer, she and Jack drift apart. Yet Jack remembers this moment during his drive westward, as one of pleasure and of love.

Answer: Lois

Jack is married to Lois for a very short amount of time. In his self-assessment during his westward drive, he fails to comprehend why Lois had agreed to marry him, for he neither handsome, brilliant, nor rich. In fact, he looks upon his marriage with distaste; he loathes himself for not realizing before marriage that Lois was actually a person and not merely a "juicy, sweet-breathed machine".

He eventually leaves Lois.

Answer: Jack Burden

After Adam Stanton performs a prefrontal lobectomy on a victim of catatonic schizophrenia, Jack delivers this dry joke. It is inspired by his discovery of the Great Twitch during his trip westward. The Great Twitch is a concept that he develops for himself to explain his life. Seeing the Great Twitch as the answer for all life, Jack thinks that it is recreating the patient's personality.

Answer: Jack Burden

In 1937, Tom Stark, the Boss's son, is accused of being the father of an unborn baby. The Boss's political opponents, especially MacMurfee, who is politically supported by the father of the woman involved, use this to their advantage. The Boss, however, sends Jack to use what he dug up to bribe the Judge into selling out MacMurfee.

The information in question is of the taken bribery of the Judge and the effect of the suicide committed by the one whose job was replaced by Judge Irwin. After being thus confronted by Jack, the Judge commits suicide himself, and Jack's mother hysterically informs him that the Judge was his biological father. Jack says these lines upon discovering that he is Judge Irwin's sole heir and that he inherits all that was saved by the Judge's one act of dishonesty.

While saying this, Jack Burden is both laughing and crying, openly showing, for about the first time in the novel, his true feelings and emotions.

Answer: Anne Stanton

Anne is trying to explain to Jack that Adam Stanton, her brother and the new director of the Boss's hospital, had discovered that she and the Boss are having an affair. Anne is entirely hysterical, for she is very close to her brother and is afraid of what he is going to do.

She asks Jack to find Adam, for the safety of Adam himself, the Boss, and all the people around either. Jack immediately obeys this request of his one true love.

Answer: Willie Stark

Willie tells this to Jack Burden as what might be the only signal of remorse or sorrow. He, Willie Stark- the Boss- Governor Stark, knows that his policies and political methods are strongly opposed by the educated persons in Louisiana. He seems to come to terms with the fact that his actions caused basically all of the misfortunes of his life- the loss of his son, the disputes with his wife, Lucy Stark, and himself being shot by Adam Stanton.

He tells Jack that everything could have been different if he had done things differently.

However, Willie Stark does not say that he feels remorse; he merely hints at a possibility of it.

Answer: Sugar-Boy

Jacks meets Sugar-Boy in a library. For a moment, he leads Sugar-Boy on to the truth. However, as he is about to tell Sugar-Boy that Tiny Duffy had told Adam Stanton of Anne's and the boss's affair, thus causing Adam to search out and kill the Boss, Jack halts, not wanting to be like Tiny Duffy himself.

Therefore, at the climax, Jack says that he was kidding. At this remark, Sugar-Boy, pent-up with frustration and anger, nearly kills Jack. However, a moment lapses, and the surge of anger and of hatred passes, leaving Jack alive.

Answer: Ellis Burden (the Scholarly Attorney)

At the end of the novel, Jack lives with his wife, Anne Stanton, and his legal father, Ellis Burden, in the "white house by the sea" inherited from his biological father. As Ellis Burden is dying, Jack has a heart and takes care of him, not only feeding and clothing him, but also helping him write his philosophical works.

Despite the fact that Ellis Burden is a religious man, and the Boss was not, their words ironically convey the same message when comparing Ellis Burden's words here to the Boss's arguments used to persuade Adam Stanton to become the new director of the hospital. Both men- religious and otherwise- say that good is created by man. Such is the power of such ideas that Jack, originally behavioristic and nihilistic, is turning to such a view and to a belief in God.

He says, "...in my own way I did believe what he had said."