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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the residents of Hadleyburg teach their babies in the cradle?

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

3. What does Mrs. Richards say she has been all her life?

4. What does Mr. Richards say he and is wife should remember?

5. From what country has the stranger just arrived?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mr. Richards say Burgess is friendly to them?

2. What does a man say is the difference between Wilson's and Billson's notes?

3. Why does the stranger say he devised his scheme?

4. How does Burgess try to settle the dispute between Wilson and Burgess?

5. What does the stranger write in his note to the Richardses?

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

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

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

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

10. What does Jack Halliday notice about the town?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Mark Twain uses a fictional town as his setting? How would he have to change the story if he used a real town? How does Twain use his setting to communicate character and theme?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the values of the 1900s.

In what ways are the characters a product of their time?

How does the book express the changes America was going through at the time?

What values does modern society share with 1900s America?

Essay Topic 3

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the time period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

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