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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Wing forgets about his hands?

2. Why does Alice join the Winesburg Methodist Church?

3. What emotion does Elizabeth feel at the end of the story ,after George share's his plans for his future?

4. What does Louise do to a farmhand at her family's farm one weekend?

5. What does Alice sometimes do with her blanket?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Wing feel about the town where he lives?

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

3. What happens to Wing's teaching career?

4. What does Tom fear about his life in the story "Mother"?

5. What does Jesse feel David's coming means?

6. At the end of "Departure", what does George think about Winesburg?

7. How does Enoch want to explain his art to his artist friends in New York City?

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

9. What does the idea of death do to the writer in "The Book of the Grotesque"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

George Willard is present in most of the stories in this book. Who is George? How do you describe him? What role does George play in the book and for the other characters of Winesburg?

Essay Topic 2

How does the farm work as a setting in "Winesburg, Ohio"? Discuss the use of the farm as a setting, including the emotions connected with farms, family obligation, events tied to farms and the symbolic language used to describe farms.

Essay Topic 3

Sherwood Anderson is considered to be one of the fathers of Realism. Define the literary movement of Realism and explain how "Winesburg, Ohio" fits this definition.

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