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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Wash's job?
(a) Telegraph operator.
(b) Wash is unemployed.
(c) Zookeeper.
(d) Bartender.

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

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

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

5. Why does Jesse place blame on his dead brothers?
(a) They leave their father.
(b) They fight on the wrong side of the war.
(c) They do not work hard enough.
(d) They are Godless.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Jesse's brothers and father stay silent on the farm?

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

4. When George goes to his wife after kicking her out, what does he say it takes for him to forgive her?

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

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