The Providence Police Academy held its class for recruits at Camp Varnum in 2004.

The Providence JOurnal / Sandor Bodo

1. If you are looking for the Rhode Island National Guard’s Camp Varnum, you will have to go to:

a) Narragansett

b) South Kingstown

c) Westerly

d) Shannock

2. Syria H. Vaughan, who introduced to Rhode Island the manufacture of narrow fabrics, had an operating mill at Bissell’s Cove on Narragansett Bay. He changed the name of the place to Hamilton in honor of his:

a) Mother

b) Wife

c) Sister

d) Aunt

3. Rhode Island ratified the     U.S. Constitution, the last of the original 13 colonies to do so, at a meeting at:

a) Avondale

b) Little Rest

c) Biscuit City

d) Lotteryville

ANSWERS ON PAGE D4

1 — a

2 — b

3 — b. The village is now known as Kingston, and the meeting was held at what was then the Washington County Court House, one of the state’s five rotating capitals. The building today is used as the Kingston Free Library.