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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. Reefy ride when he goes house to house?
(a) A chariot.
(b) A white horse.
(c) A white car.
(d) A small donkey.

2. What does Elizabeth do when she goes in George's room and sits by his desk?
(a) She reads his notes.
(b) She cleans his drawers.
(c) She prays.
(d) She sleeps.

3. How does the town feel about Joe and Sarah?
(a) They are repelled by it.
(b) They are in awe of it.
(c) They try to break them up.
(d) They are indifferent to it.

4. What does Dr. Parcival say his objective of coming to Winesburg is?
(a) To meet a woman.
(b) To live cheaply.
(c) To open his medical practice.
(d) To write a book.

5. What are Tom's political aspirations?
(a) To become governor.
(b) To become president.
(c) To become mayor.
(d) To become chief of police.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does the writer describe the "truths" he writes about?

4. Why does Alice join the Winesburg Methodist Church?

5. How does George feel at the end of the story when he is at the drug store?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the woman in the doctor's office have blood on her in "Paper Pills"?

2. What are the paper pills?

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

4. How does Tom relate to his daughter, Tandy?

5. How does Elmer feel about his family?

6. How does Enoch's life change when he is twenty-one?

7. Why does Ed Handby want to get married?

8. What happens one summer evening in George and Helen's past that George reflects upon?

9. Why does Jesse leave his family's farm as a young man?

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

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