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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does George feel at the end of the story when he is at the drug store?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Angry.
(c) In love.
(d) Satisfied.

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

4. Why does Alice join the Winesburg Methodist Church?
(a) Because she is lonely.
(b) Because she wants to find God.
(c) Because she thinks she sins.
(d) Because she has a crush on Will.

5. How does Jesse feel about David's disappearance at the end of this story?
(a) It doesn't surprise him.
(b) It makes him cry.
(c) He is happy that David is independent.
(d) He is filled with guilt.

6. What does David make that he always carries with him?
(a) A whistle.
(b) A slingshot.
(c) A whip.
(d) A polished rock.

7. What does Tom say "Tom Willard's son" must do?
(a) Wake up.
(b) Help his mother.
(c) Be a writer.
(d) Date a girl.

8. When does Dr. Parcival say he prays all night?
(a) When he is about to move.
(b) When his mother is ill.
(c) When his father dies.
(d) When his brother steals.

9. Why is Tom and Elizabeth's hotel losing guests?
(a) Because of Tom's temper.
(b) Because of the hotel's shabbiness.
(c) Because of the cost to stay there.
(d) Because of Elizabeth's illness.

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

11. Who says "I have a desire to make you admire me"?
(a) Dr. Parcival.
(b) Will Henderson.
(c) George Willard.
(d) Albert Longworth.

12. What does Dr. Reefy write on the scraps of paper he keeps in his pockets?
(a) Phone numbers.
(b) Addresses.
(c) Prescriptions.
(d) Thoughts.

13. What does Joe tell George and Sarah's father at the Willard house?
(a) To imagine a world without grass.
(b) To imagine a world without crops.
(c) To imagine a world without the ground.
(d) To imagine a world without bees.

14. Where does Dr. Parcival live?
(a) Above the shoe repair shop.
(b) Above the saloon.
(c) Below the book bookstore.
(d) Next to the baker.

15. Who believes you are never be too smart for Sarah?
(a) George.
(b) Sarah's father.
(c) Joe.
(d) Dr. Parcival.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the tall, dark girl think she marries?

2. Why does the tall, dark girl originally come see Dr. Reefy?

3. Who does Joe envy?

4. Why does the writer get out of bed and start writing?

5. Why does Louise end up living with the Hardy family?

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