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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. What does Wing do for a living?
(a) Build porches.
(b) Coach football.
(c) Pick strawberries.
(d) He is unemployed.

2. What does Dr. Parcival always wear?
(a) A pair of dingy brown shoes.
(b) A dirty hat.
(c) A yellow jacket.
(d) A dirty white waistcoat.

3. What does Dr. Reefy ask the tall, dark girl after her first visit with him?
(a) He asks her to marry him.
(b) He asks her to go for a ride in the country.
(c) He asks her to tell him her thoughts.
(d) He asks her if she is rich.

4. What does Louise do to a farmhand at her family's farm one weekend?
(a) Steals the farmhand's money.
(b) Takes the farmhand's buggy.
(c) Hits the farmhand in anger.
(d) Gets the farmhand fired.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the writer get out of bed and start writing?

2. Where does George find Louise when he decides to answer her letter?

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

4. What does Dr. Reefy write on the scraps of paper he keeps in his pockets?

5. What does Henry Bradford do to Wing one afternoon at the schoolhouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Ray and his emotions when he is out buying groceries?

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

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

4. What happens to make David fear Jesse?

5. On the night of the storm, what happens between Kate and George?

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

7. In "Paper Pills", how are the tall, dark girl's suitors different?

8. In the story "Mother", what are Elizabeth's hopes and dreams for George?

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

10. At the end of "Departure", what does George think about Winesburg?

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