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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. What does Dr. Parcival say happens to Dr. Cronin?
(a) Dr. Cronin is arrested.
(b) Dr. Cronin is robbed.
(c) Dr. Cronin moves to Iowa.
(d) Dr. Cronin is murdered.

2. Where does Louise tell George to wait?
(a) By the picket fence.
(b) Behind the saloon.
(c) In the potato patch.
(d) By William's barn.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wing do before he cries in front of George?

2. Who says they are "too greedy for glory"?

3. What does Elizabeth take out of a cloth bag that hangs on the wall by a nail?

4. How do the neighbors feel about the swampland Jesse buys?

5. How long does the writer write for when he gets out of bed and starts writing?

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