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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Prendergast's sentence for killing Harrison?
(a) Death by electric chair
(b) Life imprisonment
(c) Community service
(d) Death by hanging

2. Who refuses to give the Retrenchment Committee control of expenditure?
(a) The Chicago Councel
(b) The Chicago mayor
(c) The President
(d) The Exposition Company

3. What evidence do the police have?
(a) Foot prints
(b) Letters
(c) Children's toys
(d) Fingerprints

4. Olsted left the completion of the Exposition to _________.
(a) Ulrich
(b) Burnham
(c) Holmes
(d) Root

5. What does American want its cities to be after the fair?
(a) Exciting, but safe
(b) Pretty and clean
(c) Peaceful havens
(d) Big and brash

6. Who does Holmes take to the hotel with him?
(a) Mrs. Lawrence
(b) Mrs. Burnham
(c) Minnie
(d) Anna

7. What does Holmes say when questioned by Barlow?
(a) I am the devil
(b) I am innocent
(c) Nothing
(d) I want my lawyer

8. How does Millet die aboard the Titanic?
(a) He freezes to death.
(b) He kills himself.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He drowns.

9. With how many cars does the Ferris Wheel begin?
(a) 9
(b) 5
(c) 8
(d) 6

10. What does a man pick up from Holmes' hotel later that night?
(a) A suitcase of money
(b) A horse
(c) A car
(d) Two large crates

11. What is Anna's nickname?
(a) Nannie
(b) The goat
(c) Miss Piggy
(d) Loopy

12. What does Carter Harrison urge businesses to do on Chicago Day?
(a) Hang out flags and other decorations
(b) Open longer
(c) Close
(d) Donate their profits to the fair

13. For what is the Ferris wheel eventually used?
(a) Offices
(b) A water mill
(c) A tourist attraction
(d) Scrap metal

14. What is the name of the woman Harrison is marrying?
(a) Joanna Charles
(b) Jackie Davis
(c) Lauren Jackal
(d) Annie Howard

15. How much longer does Harrison say he will live?
(a) 20 years
(b) Ten years
(c) Half a century
(d) A century

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Burnham ignore most of Olmsted's advice?

2. Whose bodies does Geyer find in Toronto?

3. Where does Prendergast go in the Prendergast chapter?

4. What does the wind cause the Ferris Wheel to do?

5. Where does Holmes state that Howard is?

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