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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the "half-witted boy" of Wing's school do at night?
(a) Draw on his walls.
(b) Make prank phone calls.
(c) Plan a crime.
(d) Imagine dreams as facts.

2. 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.

3. What part of his health concerns the writer?
(a) His heart.
(b) His stomach.
(c) His legs.
(d) His lungs.

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

5. How long has Dr. Reefy worn the same clothes?
(a) Fifteen years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Five years.

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

7. When does George visit Dr. Parcival?
(a) George only sees the doctor at the saloon.
(b) George visits the doctor once a month.
(c) George visits the doctor for lunch each week.
(d) George visits the doctor every morning for a month.

8. Why does Jesse come to the family farm?
(a) He drops out of school.
(b) All his brothers die in the Civil War.
(c) His mother is lonely.
(d) His father is ill.

9. What does Louise do to a farmhand at her family's farm one weekend?
(a) Steals the farmhand's money.
(b) Gets the farmhand fired.
(c) Takes the farmhand's buggy.
(d) Hits the farmhand in anger.

10. What does George say he has set forth upon when he goes to find Louise?
(a) An adventure.
(b) A life of lonliness.
(c) A chase.
(d) A path of crime.

11. Who is Wing's only friend?
(a) The old man.
(b) George Willard.
(c) Adolph Myers.
(d) Tom Willard.

12. Where does Jesse take David to pray?
(a) By the river.
(b) Behind the farmhouse.
(c) In a cave.
(d) In the forest.

13. What does the doctor read to the girl in the winter?
(a) What he writes on scraps of paper.
(b) All the novels in the house.
(c) His medical texts.
(d) The daily newspaper.

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

15. Where does Wing live during his youth?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Indiana.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the tall, dark girl in one of her dreams?

2. When does Dr. Parcival say he prays all night?

3. What does the woman Dr. Reefy marries leave him when she dies?

4. What does Dr. Parcival tell George he is afraid of?

5. Who tells David a joke every morning?

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