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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 Dr. Parcival tell George he is afraid of?
(a) Ghosts.
(b) Being killed.
(c) Sick people.
(d) Losing his mind.

2. What does Henry Bradford do to Wing one afternoon at the schoolhouse?
(a) Give him money.
(b) Threaten his family.
(c) Offer him a ride out of town.
(d) Beat him up.

3. How long does the writer write for when he gets out of bed and starts writing?
(a) Two days.
(b) One day.
(c) Four hours.
(d) One hour.

4. Where does George find Louise when he decides to answer her letter?
(a) Picking potatoes at her uncle's.
(b) In the backyard of her father's house.
(c) In the kitchen of her father's house.
(d) At the saloon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Louise do for John Hardy?

2. Why does Wing leave Pennsylvania?

3. What does Jesse turn to as an explanation for everything?

4. What does Elizabeth take out of a cloth bag that hangs on the wall by a nail?

5. When does George visit Dr. Parcival?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does George decide to not ask Wing about his hands?

2. In the fourth part of "Godliness", what does Jesse purchase and why?

3. Why does Tom and his grandmother move to Winesburg?

4. As revealed in the story "Death", why does Elizabeth marry Tom?

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

6. Why does Ed Handby want to get married?

7. What is the relationship between Helen and the instructor in "Sophistication"?

8. Why does Hal get arrested in "The Untold Lie"?

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

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

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