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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 does Mr. Richards say it is dreadful to be?

2. What does Halliday realize are not dead?

3. Why does Mr. Richards say he published the letter?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Hadleyburg's reputation?

2. What does the stranger do the next morning?

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

4. Why do the Richardses summon Burgess to their house?

5. Why do the Richardses become paranoid about church sermons?

6. How does Wilson get everyone on his side?

7. Why does a builder come to the town?

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

9. What does Jack Halliday notice about the town?

10. In what way does the author present Halliday as the only honest character in the story?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mark Twain's novels and stories greatly influenced modern American literature. Choose a book that you think was influenced by The Man That Corrupted HAdleyburg and discuss its similarities with the novel in terms of the following:

Plot

Character

Themes.

Essay Topic 2

What is the story's premise? Why are premises so important to a story?

Essay Topic 3

Mark Twain writes the book in the third person. Why do you think the author chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would change if the author wrote it in the first person?

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