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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Richards receive a letter from after throwing the money in the fire?
(a) Cox.
(b) Harkness.
(c) Burgess.
(d) Halliday.

2. Who do the Richardses call during the night?
(a) Mr. Halliday.
(b) Burgess.
(c) The doctor.
(d) The stranger.

3. Which two characters sit in their parlor?
(a) Mr. and Mrs. Harkness.
(b) Halliday and the foreman.
(c) Mr. and Mrs. Richards.
(d) Mr. and Mrs. Cox.

4. What does the narrator say Mr. Richards plunges his hands through his hair like?
(a) A somnambulist.
(b) A butcher.
(c) A hypnotist.
(d) A farmer.

5. What does Mr. Cox's boss say Mr. Cox should not ship until he tells him?
(a) The late mail.
(b) The evening news.
(c) The lunchtime news.
(d) The early mail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Halliday realize are not dead?

2. What is the paper's foreman the local representative of?

3. Why does Mrs. Richards think she and her husband deserve the money?

4. Who does Halliday realize has broken a leg?

5. Where does everyone run to?

(see the answer key)

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