"The One-Million-Pound Bank-Note"

Henry ends up in London because

• he wants to acquire a fortune and win a wife

• he has an "option" to sell a mining company for a profit

• he is involved in a sailing accident

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The brothers were arguing over whether

• a stranger would accept a million-pound note from someone he didn't know

• a stranger could survive with only a million-pound note to his name

• a stranger would return a million-pound note after he had possessed it for a month

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The brothers choose Henry because he is

• a poor, honest, intelligent stranger

• engaged to one of their daughters

• a foreigner

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Henry's first reaction on seeing the amount of the note is

• to return it

• to get his old position back

• to buy something to eat

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Henry parlays the million-pound note into a fortune by

• investing it in real estate

• banking it and living on the interest

• getting credit and favors on his reputation

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Henry feels he has really "made it" in society when

• he is caricatured in a newspaper cartoon

• he is invited to a royal society dinner

• he is mentioned ahead of royalty in a gossip column

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Henry agrees to help Hastings by

• lending him money

• purchasing his "option"

• lending his name as an endorsement

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Henry is attracted to Portia because

• she isn't impressed by his money

• she can be cheerful when there isn't anything to be cheerful about

• she is the daughter of one of his benefactors

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After Henry makes his report, he

• returns to San Francisco with his new wife and wealth

• asks to go into business with the brothers

• requests a situation he hadn't anticipated being available

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Mark Twain uses this story to comment on

• the average person's reaction to great wealth

• honesty among poor people

• eccentric habits of the British upper class

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