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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Prendergast go in the Prendergast chapter?
(a) The White House
(b) The City Hall
(c) Ireland
(d) The Corporate Counsel

2. Who is Prendergast introduced to at the City Hall?
(a) Harrison
(b) Krause
(c) Jackson
(d) Root

3. Holmes' hotel always smells of __________________.
(a) Chemicals and gas
(b) Burning bodies
(c) Urine
(d) Rotting bodies

4. Where does Geyer return to until August?
(a) New York
(b) Pittsburgh
(c) Philidephia
(d) Los Angeles

5. The Royal Emissary looks upon Mrs. Palmer as _______________.
(a) a slave
(b) an innkeepers' wife
(c) a servant
(d) a blacksmith's wife

6. By whose visit is the opening of the Ferris Wheel overshadowed?
(a) The American President
(b) Mark Twain
(c) The British King
(d) The Royal Emissary from Spain

7. Who does Burnhan want to lower their rates?
(a) Ticket sellers
(b) Taxis
(c) Trains
(d) Horse and carriages

8. What does a New York editor call for other New York editors to do for Chicago?
(a) Donate them money
(b) Visit the fair
(c) Advertise the fair for free
(d) Apologize

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

10. Why did Burnham ignore most of Olmsted's advice?
(a) He wants to keep control.
(b) Olmsted does not know what is really happening.
(c) The advice is awful.
(d) The fair is doing very well.

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

12. With what is Burnham charged?
(a) GBH
(b) Insurance fraud
(c) Murder
(d) Criminal negligence

13. How many weeks are left to the end of the Exposition?
(a) 5
(b) 7
(c) 2
(d) 3

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

15. Which of the following do the police not find at Holmes' hotel?
(a) Acid
(b) A kiln
(c) A dissection table
(d) An iron maiden

Short Answer Questions

1. With how many cars does the Ferris Wheel begin?

2. Who did Omsted write to say what people thought of the Exposition?

3. What does Holmes seek to hear in his victims?

4. Who carries out Holmes' burial instructions?

5. To where has the chambermaid moved?

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