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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wash do with the banker's wife's letter?

2. What does Elizabeth's dad make her promise to not tell Tom about?

3. What does George decide to do the day his mother dies?

4. What type of friends does Enoch prefer?

5. When the Reverend thinks about leaving the ministry, what other career does he consider?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lack of communication is a recurring theme in "Winesburg, Ohio". Describe three characters that have a difficult time communicating. Explain each character's situation and problem with communication. Then, explain what the lack of communication represents or symbolizes in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

How does death affect the characters of this novel? Who fears death and why? Who talks about death and why? What does death mean to some of these characters? Most importantly, what does it represent?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how three or four characters failed to use their natural talents to better themselves. Describe the talent, including how you are made aware of it. Use evidence from the text to prove the talent and the characters failure to realize it. What happens to these characters as a result? What happens to the people around them? What does this failure mean to the book as a whole?

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