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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Enoch sometimes read?
(a) In trees.
(b) On the hoods of cars.
(c) Walking down the middle of the road.
(d) On neighbor's porches.

2. What does Ed do when George interrupts his marriage proposal to Belle?
(a) He shoves George into the bushes.
(b) He threatens George and Belle physically.
(c) He tells Belle he doesn't want her anyway.
(d) He leaves Belle's house.

3. What are Tom's religious beliefs?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Athiest.
(c) Agnostic.
(d) Jewish.

4. What does Elizabeth do for the last few months of her life?
(a) Read all her books.
(b) Hide her money.
(c) Sew a blanket.
(d) Summon death.

5. What happens to Seth's father?
(a) He dies of a disease.
(b) He leaves home when Seth is young.
(c) He moves to Europe.
(d) He is killed.

6. What does George decide to do the day his mother dies?
(a) Make a change in his life.
(b) Kill his father.
(c) Buy a car.
(d) Save the hotel.

7. Why is Helen at her parent's house in "Sophistication"?
(a) Her father is ill.
(b) She is home from college.
(c) She has to move back home.
(d) She still lives there.

8. Why does the drunken stranger move to Winesburg?
(a) To find love.
(b) To teach his life story.
(c) To open a saloon.
(d) To stop drinking.

9. How does Helen's mother feel about the boys in Winesburg?
(a) She thinks country boys are better than city boys.
(b) She thinks that there aren't enough boys.
(c) She is indifferent to Winesburg boys.
(d) She thinks none of them are good enough.

10. What does Elmer believe the town thinks about him and his father?
(a) That they are strange.
(b) That they are smart.
(c) That they are broke.
(d) That they are dangerous.

11. Who names the girl "Tandy"?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) The drunken stranger.
(d) George Willard.

12. What does Ed believe is his only obstacle to get Belle to marry him?
(a) His mistress.
(b) Her father's opinion.
(c) His lack of money.
(d) George Willard.

13. What does Reverend Curtis think his wife denies him of?
(a) Children.
(b) Security.
(c) Money.
(d) Passion.

14. Where do Helen and George walk to at the end of "Sophistication"?
(a) The saloon.
(b) The fair grounds.
(c) The grocery store.
(d) Helen's house.

15. What does Elizabeth do once she returns home from visiting Dr. Reefy?
(a) She laughs.
(b) She cries.
(c) She yells at George.
(d) She locks herself in her room.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says "the women in the place don't embarrass me although they try hard enough"?

2. What does Reverend Curtis do to the window in his office after he sees Kate through it the first time?

3. What is Wash's job?

4. Why does Enoch lock the woman in his building in his apartment?

5. What animal do residents of Winesburg say Wash Williams resembles?

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