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

2. What does the writer name his book?
(a) The Book of the Grotesque.
(b) The Book of Me.
(c) When I Could Not Sleep.
(d) Grotesque Dreams.

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

4. Why is it Jesse's fault his wife dies?
(a) He has been hitting her.
(b) He poisons her.
(c) She is too delicate to live on a farm.
(d) She has a broken heart.

5. What is Dr. Reefy doing when the tall, dark girl comes to see him?
(a) Writing on a scrap of paper.
(b) Pulling a tooth.
(c) Putting a bandage on a woman.
(d) Cleaning up blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tom describe Elizabeth's figure?

2. Why does John marry Louise?

3. What does David make that he always carries with him?

4. Why does Alice join the Winesburg Methodist Church?

5. Where does George work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Wash say that "all women are dead, even when they are alive"?

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

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

4. What does Louise say about the gender of her baby?

5. Even though Seth is called the "deep one", how is this untrue?

6. What does David do when Jesse pulls out a knife in the forest?

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

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

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

10. What happens to make David fear Jesse?

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