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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 happens during the spring after the tall, dark girl marries Dr. Reefy?
(a) The girl dies.
(b) The girl gives birth.
(c) The girl loses her money.
(d) The doctor leaves the girl.

2. Why does Jesse come to the family farm?
(a) His mother is lonely.
(b) All his brothers die in the Civil War.
(c) He drops out of school.
(d) His father is ill.

3. Why does Alice save her money?
(a) To run off with Will.
(b) To buy a house.
(c) To follow Ned.
(d) To go to Cleveland.

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

5. What war is the carpenter part of?
(a) World War II.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) The Revolutionary War.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Tom and Elizabeth's hotel losing guests?

3. When does Dr. Parcival say he prays all night?

4. What do the writer and the carpenter have in common?

5. Why does a carpenter come to the writer's house?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Ed Handby want to get married?

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

4. How does Elmer feel about his family?

5. What does Dr. Parcival do with his brother's money?

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

7. What makes it difficult for the carpenter to finish his job in "The Book of the Grotesque" and why?

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

9. When Ned first plans to move to Cleveland, what does Alice tell him?

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

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