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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what is the Ferris wheel eventually used?
(a) A tourist attraction
(b) Scrap metal
(c) A water mill
(d) Offices

2. What is Burnham not told about?
(a) An accident on the Ferris Wheel
(b) His son's death
(c) A profit loss
(d) A fire

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

4. What is Prendergast's sentence for killing Harrison?
(a) Community service
(b) Death by hanging
(c) Life imprisonment
(d) Death by electric chair

5. Whose skeleton do the police find?
(a) Mrs Lawrence's
(b) Julia's
(c) Pearl's
(d) Emeline's

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

7. What does the wind cause the Ferris Wheel to do?
(a) Rotate faster
(b) Sway
(c) Vibrate
(d) Collapse

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

9. On what day does Harrison announce his upcoming marriage?
(a) Columbus Day
(b) American Cities Day
(c) Independence Day
(d) American Farm Day

10. Why did Burnham ignore most of Olmsted's advice?
(a) He wants to keep control.
(b) The fair is doing very well.
(c) The advice is awful.
(d) Olmsted does not know what is really happening.

11. Which of the following do Anna and Minnie not see at the fair?
(a) Telephone
(b) Movie
(c) Electric chair
(d) Television

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

13. Who carries out Holmes' burial instructions?
(a) His attorney
(b) His mother
(c) His wife
(d) John King

14. To where has the chambermaid moved?
(a) New York
(b) New Orleans
(c) Dwight
(d) Chicago

15. Whose body do they find at the end of the chapter?
(a) Mrs. Lawrence's
(b) Howard's
(c) Mrs. Pitezel's
(d) Ned's

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following do the police not find at Holmes' hotel?

2. Where is the Ferris Wheel reconstructed?

3. What illness does Burnham get later in his life?

4. Who of the following is one of the first people to take a ride on the Ferris wheel?

5. Which character dies aboard the Titanic?

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