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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does everyone run to?
(a) The bank.
(b) The townhall.
(c) The church.
(d) The newspaper.

2. What does the narrator say Hadleyburg is known to most Americans as?
(a) Hadleyburg the Lovable.
(b) Hadleyberg the Discernable.
(c) Hadleyburg the Disruptible.
(d) Hadleyburg the Incorruptible.

3. What does Mrs. Richards say it is no time for?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Sunshine.
(c) Rain.
(d) Clouds.

4. What is the name of the only other town that the narrator mentions?
(a) Brixton.
(b) Newmarket.
(c) Aylesbury.
(d) Leighton.

5. Who does Mrs. Richard call Mr. Richards' friend?
(a) Barclay Gordon.
(b) The stranger.
(c) Reverend Burgess.
(d) Mr. Harkness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people keep handing the Reverend?

2. What is the whole village now doing in the evenings?

3. Who is the letter from?

4. Where does the stranger set down his sack in the cashier's house?

5. What does the narrator say Hadlyburg is vain beyond?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the town react when Burgess declares that Billson is the rightful heir to the money?

2. What does Mrs. Richards learn about the stranger?

3. How does Mrs. Richards react when she realizes what is in the sack?

4. What do the other towns think of Hadleyburg?

5. What does the stranger tell Mrs. Richards?

6. What happens in the morning?

7. Why did the stranger fashion his scheme around a person that the townsfolk did not like?

8. Why is Mrs. Richards angry at her husband?

9. What same conclusion do Mr. Cox and Mr. Richards come to?

10. Why does Mr. Richards think he and his wife are not to blame for what happened?

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