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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Tom describe Elizabeth's figure?
(a) Ghostly.
(b) Overweight.
(c) Lovely.
(d) Unique.

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

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

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

5. How old is David Hardy when he comes to Jesse's farm?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Twenty-one.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does John marry Louise?

3. Who tells David a joke every morning?

4. When David and Jesse are in the forest, what makes David run?

5. How is Wing's power as a teacher described?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the drunken stranger say about women and love to Tom and Tandy?

2. Why is Joe planting grass seed?

3. What do Seth and Helen talk about on their walk?

4. What do the stories Dr. Parcival tell mean to George?

5. What makes Jesse believe that the other farmers are enemies of God?

6. How does Wing feel about the town where he lives?

7. When Ned first plans to move to Cleveland, what does Alice tell him?

8. According to the writer, what makes people grotesque?

9. What does the idea of death do to the writer in "The Book of the Grotesque"?

10. What does Wash's wife's mother do to her when Wash comes to visit?

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