5 Questions
Where were the two characters, Bill Driscoll and the narrator, when the kidnapping idea struck them?
They were down South, in Alabama.
What did the narrator and Bill need to pull off a fraudulent town-lot scheme in Western Illinois?
They needed two thousand dollars more.
What did the narrator and Bill believe would make a kidnapping project more successful in semi-rural communities?
They believed that philoprogenitiveness, the love for one's offspring, was strong in semi-rural communities and therefore a kidnapping project ought to do better there.
What did Bill and the narrator describe as 'as flat as a flannel-cake'?
They described the town of Summit in Alabama as flat as a flannel-cake.
According to Bill, when did the kidnapping idea strike them?
Bill expressed that it was 'during a moment of temporary mental apparition', but they didn't find that out till later.
Test your knowledge of O. Henry's classic short story "The Ransom of Red Chief" with this quiz. See how much you remember about the humorous and unexpected twists in the tale of a bungled kidnapping in rural Alabama.
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