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

2. What is the favorite attraction at the fair?
(a) The roller coaster
(b) The Library
(c) The Eiffel Tower
(d) The Ferris Wheel

3. How many people arrive for Independence Day at the fair?
(a) 500,000
(b) 80,000
(c) 200,000
(d) 100,000

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

5. What did Frank Haven Hall invent?
(a) The telephone
(b) Chewing gum
(c) A machine to type braille
(d) Revolvers

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Burnham buried?

2. In which month does the attendance rise?

3. Where is the Ferris Wheel reconstructed?

4. Whose bodies does Geyer find in Toronto?

5. With what is Burnham charged?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Holmes react to Geyer's finding the bodies?

2. What tragedy occurs in the Rising Wave chapter?

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

4. How does Holmes seduce Georgianna?

5. Describe the Spanish Royal Emissary's visit to Chicago.

6. What happens to Millet in the Aboard the Olympic chapter?

7. Why does Burnham feel he is a failure in the At Last chapter?

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

9. Describe the first test runs with the Ferris Wheel.

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

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