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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Chair ask someone to close?
(a) The tea urn.
(b) The doors.
(c) The sack.
(d) The windows.

2. Who are the checks made out to?
(a) Bearer.
(b) Hadleyburg.
(c) Richards.
(d) Liar.

3. What does the narrator say the sermon bristles with?
(a) Fun.
(b) Accusations.
(c) Camaraderie.
(d) Anger.

4. Who does Mr. Richards send for?
(a) Halliday.
(b) Pinkerton.
(c) Burgess.
(d) Cox.

5. What are the gallery fronts clothed in?
(a) Colored paper.
(b) Silk.
(c) Ribbons.
(d) Flags.

6. At whom is Burgess' sermon aimed?
(a) People living no life.
(b) People lying.
(c) People gossiping.
(d) People concealing sin.

7. What does the Chair order Mr. Billson and Mr. Wilson to do?
(a) Leave the building.
(b) Apoogize to each other.
(c) Be quiet.
(d) Take their seats.

8. Why does the doctor say the town is distressed?
(a) The Richardses have threatened to kill themselves.
(b) The Richardses have burned their money.
(c) The Richardses have contracted a contagious disease.
(d) The Richardses were the town's last two honest people.

9. What does Burgess say one of either Mr. Wilson or Mr. Billson has committed?
(a) Plagarism.
(b) Treason.
(c) Blasphemy.
(d) A theft.

10. Where does the stranger take the sack?
(a) To a hotel.
(b) To the Richards' house.
(c) To Florida.
(d) To a bank.

11. What does the narrator say the stranger stands up like?
(a) An American President.
(b) An English Earl.
(c) An Italian Count.
(d) A Cuban Communist.

12. What does Mr. Richards say he does not want to die like?
(a) A dog.
(b) A mole.
(c) A rat.
(d) A cat.

13. What is written on the second envelope Burgess pulls out of the sack?
(a) The test.
(b) The riot.
(c) Nuts.
(d) The light.

14. Whose is the fourth remark that the Chair reads?
(a) Mr. Pinkerton's.
(b) Mr. Yates'.
(c) Mr. Cox's.
(d) Mr. Richards'.

15. For whom was Mr. Richards going to plead?
(a) The town.
(b) The stranger.
(c) The other men.
(d) Himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mr. Wilson say he has stood up?

2. Where does Mr. Wison say he left his paper open?

3. Who interrupts the hatter?

4. Who does Richards receive a letter from after throwing the money in the fire?

5. Who do the Richardses imagine is listening to them in the next room?

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