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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following do the reporters make a picture of?
(a) The war memorial.
(b) The public square.
(c) The public monument.
(d) The stranger.

2. Which of the following does Mrs. Richards use to describe the mentality of the town?
(a) Open.
(b) Closed.
(c) Tight.
(d) Stingy.

3. What does the sack contain?
(a) $100 bills.
(b) Gold.
(c) $50 bills.
(d) Silver.

4. Who does Halliday realize has broken a leg?
(a) Mr. Richard's
(b) Mr. Harkness.
(c) Nobody.
(d) Himself.

5. Why does Mr. Richards not want to make the matter private?
(a) It would be dishonest.
(b) The town shares everything.
(c) It would spoil the romance.
(d) It would be no fun.

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

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

8. Who does Mrs. Richards say her husband is free of?
(a) Dillinger.
(b) Cox.
(c) Halliday.
(d) Pinkerton.

9. Which of the following people does Mrs. Richards say has twitted them?
(a) The Christians.
(b) The Jeminas.
(c) The Wilsons.
(d) The Wombles.

10. What does Mr. Richards say the town has trained them to think?
(a) Honestly.
(b) Joylessly.
(c) Lovingly.
(d) Dishonestly.

11. What did Nancy Hewitt have a spoonful of in her veins?
(a) Hispanic blood.
(b) Negro blood.
(c) Mexican blood.
(d) Indian blood.

12. What does Mr. Richards want to make his proof of mind?
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Humble.
(c) Honest.
(d) Perfect.

13. Who do the townspeople think helped the Reverend?
(a) The stranger.
(b) Harkness.
(c) Simpson.
(d) Goodson.

14. What did the residents of Hadleyburg keep out of the way of young people?
(a) Temptations.
(b) Television.
(c) Criminals.
(d) Theater.

15. Why does Reverend Burgess like Mr. Richards?
(a) He made a big donation to the church.
(b) He helped him out.
(c) He is a regular at church.
(d) He fixed the Reverend's bicycle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose opinion does Mrs. Richards say she is now worried about?

2. Who does Mr. Richards think that Goodson despised?

3. What happened to Nancy Hewitt?

4. Who does Mr. Halliday talk to about Mrs. Wilcox's happiness?

5. What does Halliday realize are not dead?

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