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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness in the Fair That Changed America Quiz

Erik Larson

This Study Guide consists of approximately 54 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Devil in the White City.

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness in the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

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Part 1, Prologue

Part 1, The Black City

Part 1, The Trouble Has Just Begun

Part 1, The Necessary Supply

Part 1, Becomingness

Part 1, Don't Be Afraid

Part 1, Pilgrimage

Part 1, Hotel for the Fair

Part 1, Landscape of Regret

Part 1, Vanishing Point

Part 2, Convocation

Part 2, Cuckolding

Part 2, Remains of the Day

Part 2, A Gauntlet Dropped

Part 2, The Angel from Dwight

Part 2, Dedication Day

Part 2, Prendergast

Part 2, I Want You At Once

Part 2, Chappell Redux

Part 2, The Cold-Blooded Fact

Part 2, Acquiring Minnie

Part 2, Dreadful Things Done By Girls

Part 2, The Invitation

Part 2, Final Preparations

Part 3, Opening Day

Part 3, The World's Fair Hotel

Part 3, Prendergast

Part 3, Night is the Magician

Part 3, Modus Operandi

Part 3, One Good Turn

Part 3, Vertigo

Part 3, Heathen Wanted

Part 3, At Last

Part 3, Rising Wave

Part 3, Independence Day

Part 3, Claustrophobia

Part 3, Storm and Fire

Part 3, Prendergast

Part 3, Toward Triumph

Part 3, Departures

Part 3, Nightfall

Part 3, The Black City

Part 4, Property of Holmes

Part 4, Moyamensing Prison

Part 4, The Tenant

Part 4, A Lively Corpse

Part 4, All the Weary Days

Part 4, Malice Aforethought

Epilogue, The Fair

Epilogue, Recessional

Epilogue, Holmes

Epilogue, Aboard The Olympic

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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness in the Fair That Changed America Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What does Sol Bloom open? (from Part 2, Acquiring Minnie)

An Algerian vilage

A saloon bar

A Morrocan village

A brothel

2.

What does Burnham fear the Retrenchment Committee will do? (from Part 3, Storm and Fire)

End the fair

Destroy the buildings

Take away his control

Lay off workers

3.

Holmes believes he is taking on the characteristics of __________. (from Epilogue, Holmes)

the devil

Abraham Lincoln

Jesus

Howard Pitezel

4.

What did Olmsted ask the people he met on his travels? (from Part 3, Heathen Wanted)

How old were they

Had they heard of the Exposition

If they had any money

How the Exposition was going

5.

Who is running for his fifth term as mayor? (from Part 2, Acquiring Minnie)

Carter Harrison

Prendergast

Alfred Trude

Davis Goddard

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