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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of friends does Enoch prefer?

2. Why does Enoch lock the woman in his building in his apartment?

3. What is Wash's job?

4. Who names the girl "Tandy"?

5. At the end of "Sophistication", how to George and Helen feel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose three characters that you feel have power in Winesburg. Defend your choices and discuss what characteristics are needed to be powerful in Winesburg. How do these characters use their power? What does having power in Winesburg mean? How is power a theme, or not a theme, in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

How does "The Book of the Grotesques" set up the rest of the book? What are "grotesques"? Choose three characters and analyze them according to this description of grotesque.

Essay Topic 3

Thinking about the episodes of violence in "Winesburg, Ohio", describe what the violence represents to the novel/characters. Analyze the symbolism of any weapons involved. How does Anderson use violence? What message is conveyed? How does violence develop the stories/characters?

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