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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Wing leave Pennsylvania?
(a) He meets a woman.
(b) He gets a new job.
(c) He is bored of his life there.
(d) He is driven out of town.

2. Where does Wing live during his youth?
(a) Indiana.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Maryland.

3. What happens during the spring after the tall, dark girl marries Dr. Reefy?
(a) The girl gives birth.
(b) The girl loses her money.
(c) The doctor leaves the girl.
(d) The girl dies.

4. How do the neighbors feel about the swampland Jesse buys?
(a) They are fearful of what he builds.
(b) They ignore him for taking up so much space.
(c) The laugh and hope he loses money.
(d) They are grateful to help him improve it.

5. How does Tom describe Elizabeth's figure?
(a) Ghostly.
(b) Lovely.
(c) Unique.
(d) Overweight.

6. Why does Alice save her money?
(a) To follow Ned.
(b) To buy a house.
(c) To run off with Will.
(d) To go to Cleveland.

7. What does Alice sometimes do with her blanket?
(a) Covers her head at night.
(b) Makes a figure in her bed.
(c) Hides during the day.
(d) Hangs it up over his windows.

8. What happens to the tall, dark girl in one of her dreams?
(a) She is robbed.
(b) She is bitten.
(c) She is ill.
(d) She is slapped.

9. How does the town feel about Joe and Sarah?
(a) They are in awe of it.
(b) They are indifferent to it.
(c) They try to break them up.
(d) They are repelled by it.

10. Who tells David a joke every morning?
(a) Jesse.
(b) A farmhand.
(c) His aunt.
(d) Louise.

11. What does David make that he always carries with him?
(a) A whip.
(b) A slingshot.
(c) A whistle.
(d) A polished rock.

12. What does Dr. Parcival say his objective of coming to Winesburg is?
(a) To live cheaply.
(b) To meet a woman.
(c) To write a book.
(d) To open his medical practice.

13. Where does George find Louise when he decides to answer her letter?
(a) In the backyard of her father's house.
(b) Picking potatoes at her uncle's.
(c) At the saloon.
(d) In the kitchen of her father's house.

14. Where does Dr. Parcival live?
(a) Below the book bookstore.
(b) Above the shoe repair shop.
(c) Above the saloon.
(d) Next to the baker.

15. What does Joe tell George and Sarah's father at the Willard house?
(a) To imagine a world without the ground.
(b) To imagine a world without grass.
(c) To imagine a world without crops.
(d) To imagine a world without bees.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it Jesse's fault his wife dies?

2. What is one of George's habits?

3. What does the woman Dr. Reefy marries leave him when she dies?

4. What changes at the farm once David arrives?

5. What does Dr. Parcival always wear?

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