Roy Rawlings was speaker of the R.I. House from 1927-1933.

1. The largest and most damaging fire to occur in Hope Valley in modern times happened on March 14, 1947, when a grain elevator owned by Roy Rawlings burned, at the loss of this number of dollars:

a) 1/2 million

b) 3/4 million

c) 1 million

d) 1 1/2 million

2. The bridge in Bradford that spans the Pawcatuck River is called:

a) Meeting House Bridge

b) Bradford Bridge

c) Common Bridge

d) Pawcatuck Bridge

3. Historian W.H. Munro referred to this hilly South County town as “The Alps of Rhode Island”:

a) Exeter

b) Block Island

c) Hopkinton

d) Richmond

ANSWERS ON PAGE D3.

1 — c

2 — a

3 — a