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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Louise do for John Hardy?
(a) She scares his enemies away.
(b) She bakes him a cake.
(c) She writes him a note.
(d) She paints him a picture.

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

3. What is Dr. Reefy doing when the tall, dark girl comes to see him?
(a) Pulling a tooth.
(b) Cleaning up blood.
(c) Putting a bandage on a woman.
(d) Writing on a scrap of paper.

4. What does Tom's conversation with George about being successful make Elizabeth want to do?
(a) Send George to college.
(b) Talk to George herself.
(c) Move out of the hotel.
(d) Kill Tom.

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

6. What happens when Wing forgets about his hands?
(a) He forgets how to talk.
(b) He puts them on George's shoulder.
(c) He paints a picture.
(d) He leaves his front porch.

7. What body part does Wing use to help him talk?
(a) His head.
(b) His arms.
(c) His mouth.
(d) His hands.

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

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

10. Where does George work?
(a) Winesburg News.
(b) Winesburg Eagle.
(c) Winesburg Post.
(d) Winesburg Gazette.

11. What does Dr. Parcival tell George he does for a living?
(a) Newspaper reporter.
(b) Professional thief.
(c) Weatherman.
(d) He doesn't have to work before this.

12. What do the writer and the carpenter have in common?
(a) They both ride bikes.
(b) They both lose a brother.
(c) The both are in prison.
(d) The both have white mustaches.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is David Hardy when he comes to Jesse's farm?

2. What does Dr. Reefy ask the tall, dark girl after her first visit with him?

3. What happens to the writer's book?

4. What are Tom's political aspirations?

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

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