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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Elizabeth use the "feeble flame of life that remains in her body" to get out of bed and creep toward George's bedroom one July evening?
(a) She has a bad dream.
(b) She hears noises come out of his room.
(c) George does not visit her for several days.
(d) She knows Tom is trying to get him a job.

2. How are the doctor's knuckles described?
(a) Horribly placed.
(b) Extraordinarily large.
(c) Strangely twisted.
(d) Mysteriously bumpy.

3. What does Jesse want to use his land for?
(a) To raise sheep.
(b) To make money.
(c) To receive God.
(d) To take in orphans.

4. How old is David Hardy when he comes to Jesse's farm?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Twelve.

5. When David and Jesse are in the forest, what makes David run?
(a) A stranger pulls out a gun.
(b) Jesse has a knife.
(c) The lamb starts to attack.
(d) A forest fire starts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What does Henry Bradford do to Wing one afternoon at the schoolhouse?
(a) Offer him a ride out of town.
(b) Beat him up.
(c) Threaten his family.
(d) Give him money.

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

14. What does the woman Dr. Reefy marries leave him when she dies?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her farm.
(c) Her money.
(d) Her cat.

15. What does Alice do the night that it rains?
(a) She runs outside, naked.
(b) She goes to bed early.
(c) She cries as she runs around the streets.
(d) She starts yelling frantically from her window.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Alice save her money?

2. How does the author describe Joe Welling's fits?

3. Why does Dr. Parcival say he does not have many patients?

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

5. Why does Wing leave Pennsylvania?

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