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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Man of Ideas.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the danger of the writer's subject matter?
(a) He becomes grotesque himself.
(b) He runs out of things to write.
(c) He doesn't fully understand it.
(d) No one wants to read it.

3. What does the writer name his book?
(a) The Book of the Grotesque.
(b) When I Could Not Sleep.
(c) Grotesque Dreams.
(d) The Book of Me.

4. What happens to the writer's book?
(a) It is not published.
(b) It gets published.
(c) He decides to re-write it.
(d) He looses the only copy.

5. What changes at the farm once David arrives?
(a) It becomes quieter.
(b) It becomes happier.
(c) It becomes too crowded.
(d) It becomes lonely.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Parcival say happens to Dr. Cronin?

2. What part of his health concerns the writer?

3. How does Tom describe Elizabeth's figure?

4. What emotion does Elizabeth feel at the end of the story ,after George share's his plans for his future?

5. What does Joe tell George and Sarah's father at the Willard house?

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