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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 is the paper's foreman the local representative of?

2. What does Mr. Richards want to do with the money?

3. Which of the following does Mrs. Richards use to describe the mentality of the town?

4. What do people keep handing the Reverend?

5. What do the Wilsons arrange?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the stranger write in his letter to Mr. Richards?

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

5. Why can the boy not stop the mail?

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

7. How does a stranger try to get the 18 principals to bid for the sack?

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

9. What is Hadleyburg's reputation?

10. Why does Mr. Richards say he did not speak up in defense of Burgess?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG is a novella. What are the differences between a novella and a novel in terms of the following:

Language

Character

Structure

Essay Topic 2

Examine the novel's chronological setting.

What were the main concerns during the 1900s? How does the author express these concerns?

How would the author change the novel if it was set in today's society?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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