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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When George goes to his wife after kicking her out, what does he say it takes for him to forgive her?
(a) For her to touch him.
(b) For her to give him his money back.
(c) For her to cry.
(d) Nothing makes him forgive her.

4. Why does Jesse's brothers and father stay silent on the farm?
(a) They do not want to scare the animals.
(b) It is part of their religion.
(c) It is difficult for them to talk.
(d) They do not like each other.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Ed do when George interrupts his marriage proposal to Belle?

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

5. What does Ed believe is his only obstacle to get Belle to marry him?

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