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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When Ned can't find work in Cleveland, where does he go?
(a) Detroit.
(b) New York.
(c) Back to Winesburg.
(d) Chicago.

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

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

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

8. What are Tom's political aspirations?
(a) To become president.
(b) To become chief of police.
(c) To become mayor.
(d) To become governor.

9. What does Wing do before he cries in front of George?
(a) He puts his hands in his pockets.
(b) He yells at George.
(c) He drops his strawberries.
(d) He admits to being a thief.

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

11. Why does a carpenter come to the writer's house?
(a) To install a new floor.
(b) To fix his window.
(c) To build a shelf.
(d) To raise his bed.

12. What is the danger of the writer's subject matter?
(a) He becomes grotesque himself.
(b) He runs out of things to write.
(c) He doesn't fully understand it.
(d) No one wants to read it.

13. How does the writer describe the "truths" he writes about?
(a) Secret.
(b) Grotesque.
(c) Painful.
(d) Beautiful.

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

15. Who does Alice Hindman live with?
(a) Her mother and stepfather.
(b) Her father and stepmother.
(c) She lives alone at a boarding house.
(d) Her stepsisters.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Louise act toward her education?

2. Why is it Jesse's fault his wife dies?

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

4. Why does Alice save her money?

5. What emotion does Elizabeth feel at the end of the story ,after George share's his plans for his future?

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