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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. What did the residents of Hadleyburg teach their babies in the cradle?
(a) The principles of life.
(b) The principles of Christianity.
(c) The principles of love.
(d) The principles of honest dealings.

2. What does Mrs. Richards say she has been all her life?
(a) A humbug.
(b) A firebug.
(c) A lightning bug.
(d) A blowbug.

3. What do the Wilsons arrange?
(a) A dinner party.
(b) A fancy dress ball.
(c) A sermon.
(d) A pillow fight.

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

5. Why did Mr. Richards decide against saving the Reverend Burgess?
(a) He did not have the pluck.
(b) Burgess deserved what he got.
(c) He did not want to be unpopular.
(d) He was too lazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following areas of America does the narrator not mention?

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

3. What does Mrs. Richards say her husband has never uttered?

4. Where does the stranger say Goodson made the remark to him?

5. Complete the following sentence; "A proof once established is _________________."

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in the morning?

2. Why does a builder come to the town?

3. How does Mr. Richards react when he reads the stranger's note?

4. What do the other towns think of Hadleyburg?

5. How does a minor citizen make everyone in the town hall erupt with laughter?

6. How does the stranger say he can make the coins worth their face value in gold?

7. Why are the Hadleyburg residents acting so moody?

8. How does Hadleyburg make sure all its residents are honest?

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

10. What does the stranger say should happen if his plan is successful?

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