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

2. How does Louise act toward her education?
(a) Dilligent.
(b) Careless.
(c) Worried.
(d) Uninterested.

3. What does Wing do before he cries in front of George?
(a) He admits to being a thief.
(b) He yells at George.
(c) He drops his strawberries.
(d) He puts his hands in his pockets.

4. Where does Louise tell George to wait?
(a) By William's barn.
(b) By the picket fence.
(c) Behind the saloon.
(d) In the potato patch.

5. Why does Alice join the Winesburg Methodist Church?
(a) Because she wants to find God.
(b) Because she is lonely.
(c) Because she thinks she sins.
(d) Because she has a crush on Will.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color does the Big Four paint its stations?

2. What is one of George's habits?

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

4. What happens to the writer's book?

5. How does the writer describe the "truths" he writes about?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Hal get arrested in "The Untold Lie"?

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

8. What do the stories Dr. Parcival tell mean to George?

9. In "Paper Pills", how are the tall, dark girl's suitors different?

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

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