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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through An Awakening.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ed Handby do for a living?
(a) Telegraph operator.
(b) Preacher.
(c) Bartender.
(d) Bookkeeper.

2. What does Ed believe is his only obstacle to get Belle to marry him?
(a) His lack of money.
(b) George Willard.
(c) Her father's opinion.
(d) His mistress.

3. Why does Jesse come to the family farm?
(a) He drops out of school.
(b) All his brothers die in the Civil War.
(c) His father is ill.
(d) His mother is lonely.

4. What does Jesse turn to as an explanation for everything?
(a) The hand of God.
(b) The opinions of his wife.
(c) The opinions of his father.
(d) Farming magazines.

5. Where does Wash's wife go after they break up?
(a) To Winesburg.
(b) To her father's.
(c) To her lover's.
(d) To her mother's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says "the women in the place don't embarrass me although they try hard enough"?

2. Why does Jesse place blame on his dead brothers?

3. How does Ed make George feel at the end of "An Awakening"?

4. What does the author say makes it difficult for people to understand Jesse?

5. What does Wash do with the banker's wife's letter?

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