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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. When does George visit Dr. Parcival?
(a) George visits the doctor every morning for a month.
(b) George visits the doctor once a month.
(c) George only sees the doctor at the saloon.
(d) George visits the doctor for lunch each week.

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

3. Where does Dr. Parcival move from?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Omaha.
(d) Detroit.

4. Where does George work?
(a) Winesburg Post.
(b) Winesburg News.
(c) Winesburg Eagle.
(d) Winesburg Gazette.

5. What does George say he has set forth upon when he goes to find Louise?
(a) A path of crime.
(b) An adventure.
(c) A chase.
(d) A life of lonliness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Henry Bradford do to Wing one afternoon at the schoolhouse?

3. What does Elizabeth do when she goes in George's room and sits by his desk?

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

5. What does Wing do before he cries in front of George?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens the second time Elmer tries to talk to George?

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

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

5. What happens to Wing's teaching career?

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

7. How does Dr. Parcival describe his mother and brother?

8. Why does George go to the drug store after leaving Louise?

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

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

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