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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. What does Mr. Richards say he and is wife should remember?
(a) It was ordered.
(b) It was the nice thing.
(c) It was the right thing.
(d) It was the Christian thing.

2. What is the old lady reading in the parlor?
(a) The Guardian.
(b) The Christian Times.
(c) The New Age Observer.
(d) The Missionary Herald.

3. How does Mr. Richards say he feels about helping the Reverend?
(a) Guilty.
(b) Glad.
(c) Happy.
(d) Bad.

4. Which of the following do the reporters not make a picture of?
(a) The sack.
(b) Mr. Richard's house.
(c) The bank.
(d) Mr. Cox's house.

5. Why does Mr. Richards say he published the letter?
(a) It said publish it.
(b) It was the honest thing to do.
(c) He wants to share the riches.
(d) He would have been found out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the stranger's plan light his head up with?

2. What did the residents of Hadleyburg keep out of the way of young people?

3. Whose comments does the narrator say became increasingly disagreeable?

4. What does Mr. Richards say the town has trained them to think?

5. Whose opinion does Mrs. Richards say she is now worried about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Hadleyburg's reputation?

2. How does the author describe the town hall on the day of the inquiry?

3. How does Wilson get everyone on his side?

4. Why did the stranger fashion his scheme around a person that the townsfolk did not like?

5. Why does a builder come to the town?

6. How does the town react when Burgess declares that Billson is the rightful heir to the money?

7. What does Halliday notice about the town's citizens after they have received the letters?

8. Why does Harkness want to buy the sack from the stranger?

9. How does Mr. Richards react when he reads the stranger's note?

10. In what way does the author present Halliday as the only honest character in the story?

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