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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Holmes ask Anna to get from his vault?
(a) Money
(b) Documents
(c) His suitcase
(d) Photographs

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

3. Of whose murder is Holmes convicted?
(a) Ned Connor
(b) Mrs. Lawrence
(c) Howard Pitezel
(d) Benjamin Pitezel

4. Who is in charge of finding the three children?
(a) Frank Geyer
(b) Howard Pitezel
(c) Jack Ohio
(d) Dr. Holmes

5. What does Holmes not want to become when he dies?
(a) A reincarnation
(b) An exhibit
(c) A specimen
(d) Forgotten

6. Who does Susan Anthony meet at the fair?
(a) D. W Griffiths
(b) Her estranged father
(c) Theodore Roosevelt
(d) Wild Bill Cody

7. Where is Burnham buried?
(a) Graceland cemetery in Chicago
(b) Hollywood cemetery in Los Angeles
(c) Leper cemetery in Los Angeles
(d) Horace cemetery in Memphis

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

9. What hits the Ferris Wheel?
(a) A windstorm
(b) A tornado
(c) Metorite
(d) Lightning

10. What does Burnham fear the Retrenchment Committee will do?
(a) Destroy the buildings
(b) End the fair
(c) Lay off workers
(d) Take away his control

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

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

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

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

15. Which small town outside Indianapolis does Geyer visit?
(a) Hollandska
(b) Irvington
(c) Leapbull
(d) Fromington

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Anna's nickname?

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

3. Who does Sullivan blame for most of his problems?

4. Where is the Ferris Wheel reconstructed?

5. What is the role of the retrenchment committee?

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