Devil and White City - Final Exam

Which of the following is NOT matched with the correct description?

• Jane Addams-founder of the Hull House
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton-feminist who advocated Divorce
• Clarence Darrow-Lawyer who supported free love
• Lizzy Borden-inventor of the stenograph

What type of literary term is used in the following quotation? ͞At this moment he and they saw the challenge in its two most fundamental dimensions, time and money, and these were stark enough. Only Poe could have dreamed the rest."

• simile
• metaphor
• allusion
• personification

What type of literary term is used in the following quotation? ͞ Chicago is like a man who marries a woman with a ready-made family of twelve."

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Allusion
• Personification

What two authors did Mudgett like to read?

• Jules Verne and Herman Melville
• Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe
• Jules Verne and Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorn

What scam was Mudgett attempting with the fellow Canadian student?

• marry rich widows to get their money
  
• life insurance fraud
  
• real estate fraud
  
• patent drug sales
  

According to Holmes, where was Mrs. Holton?

• in a sanitarium
  
• sick in her room
  
• visiting relatives in California
  
• back home in Pennsylvania
  

What literary term is used in the following quote? ͞When his first letter arrived, asking sweetly if he might court her, she felt as if a coarse blanket had been lifted from her life."

• Similie
• Metaphor
• Allusion
• Personification

What complication existed in the marriage to Myrta Belknap and Holmes?

• He was too ambitious.
  
• He was rude to her family
  
• He was still married to Clara Lovering.
  
• He did not want her to have children.
  

Of the following assistants, for whom did Homes post bail?

• Charles Chappell
  
• Benjamin Pitezel
  
• Patrick Quinlan
  
• Ned Conner
  

Holmes was close to talking Mrs. Strowers to purchase a life insurance policy and name him as the beneficiary. What did Holmes say that terrified her?

• "You can trust me."
  
• "Want to visit my private vault?"
  
• "Donʼt be afraid of me.͟"
  
• "I promise, I would never hurt you."