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

2. What does the doctor read to the girl in the winter?
(a) His medical texts.
(b) The daily newspaper.
(c) What he writes on scraps of paper.
(d) All the novels in the house.

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

4. What changes at the farm once David arrives?
(a) It becomes lonely.
(b) It becomes quieter.
(c) It becomes too crowded.
(d) It becomes happier.

5. What does Alice sometimes do with her blanket?
(a) Hangs it up over his windows.
(b) Makes a figure in her bed.
(c) Covers her head at night.
(d) Hides during the day.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the neighbors feel about the swampland Jesse buys?

2. What does Dr. Parcival always wear?

3. How long has Dr. Reefy worn the same clothes?

4. What does Louise do for John Hardy?

5. When the writer is lying in bed, what does he compare himself to?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Elizabeth and George watch happen in the alley?

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

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

5. How do the Hardy girls respond to Louise when she comes to stay with them?

6. What are the paper pills?

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

8. Why is Reverend Curtis' sermon different after the first time he sees Kate?

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

10. What does Kate tell George about writing in "The Teacher"?

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