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

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

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

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

5. Why does the writer get out of bed and start writing?
(a) It is morning.
(b) He is thinking of the grotesques.
(c) He is almost done with his novel.
(d) He doesn't sleep anyway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does a carpenter come to the writer's house?

2. What happens to the writer's book?

3. When does Dr. Parcival say he prays all night?

4. Why does Jesse place blame on his dead brothers?

5. What does the woman Dr. Reefy marries leave him when she dies?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the writer come up with "The Book of the Grotesque"?

2. The day that Kate is not in her room in "The Strength of God", what is the Reverend's sermon about?

3. What happens to make David fear Jesse?

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

5. How does Dr. Parcival describe his mother and brother?

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

7. How does the author compare Dr. Reefy to the twisted apples of Winesburg?

8. What does Alice realize when she gets home after the night she runs naked in the rain?

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

10. Why is George careful when he counts his money on the train?

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