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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the names of the three children?
(a) Alice, Nellie and Howard
(b) Nellie, James and Alice
(c) Alice, Rose and Jim
(d) Howard, Alice and Jackie

3. What ceremony takes place in the At Last chapter?
(a) Burnham's birthday
(b) The opening of Holmes' hotel
(c) Independence Day celebration
(d) The opening of the Ferris Wheel

4. What does Holmes do when Anna enters the vault?
(a) Enters with her
(b) Seals the door
(c) Shoots her
(d) Turns on poisonous gas

5. Whose bodies does Geyer find in Toronto?
(a) Howard and Anna
(b) Jackie and Emeline
(c) Alice and Nellie
(d) Georgina and Mrs. Lawrence

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Burnham have to satisfy by keeping the attendance high?

2. What does the fact that Prendergast had one chamber in his empty gun show about him?

3. What does Holmes not want to become when he dies?

4. Whose skeleton do the police find?

5. Who is Prendergast introduced to at the City Hall?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Burnham manage to prove to the world?

2. What do Minnie and Anna see at the fair?

3. What do the police find in Holmes' hotel?

4. What does Geyer find in Toronto?

5. How does Holmes seduce Georgianna?

6. Why does Burnham not listen to advice from Olmsted?

7. In what way can the characters of Burnham and Holmes be compared?

8. How does Holmes kill Anna?

9. Why does the New York editor want his fellow editors to apologize to Chicago?

10. What is Holmes's plan in the Independence Day chapter?

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