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"The Book of the Grotesque," "Hands," "Paper Pills"

"Mother," "The Philosopher," "Nobody Knows"

"Godliness," Parts I-II

"Godliness," Parts III-IV: "Surrender," "Terror;" "A Man of Ideas"

"Adventure," "Respectability," "The Thinker"

"Tandy," "The Strength of God," "The Teacher"

"Loneliness," "An Awakening"

"Queer," "The Untold Lie," "Drink"

"Death," "Sophistication," "Departure"

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Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson

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What word is used to describe the people whom the old writer sees pass before his eyes in the introductory section?

(A) "Bizarre"

(B) "Grotesque"

(D) "Rustic"

What is Wing Biddlebaum's former profession?

(A) Writer

(B) Animal trainer

(D) Minister

What does Doctor Reefy do with his little scraps of paper?

(A) Sends them to publishers

(B) Puts them in his coat pockets

(D) Reads them to sparrows and blue jays

What kind of business does the Willard family run?

(A) A grocery store

(B) A tavern

(D) A boarding house

Why is Doctor Parcival afraid that he will be lynched?

(A) Because he raped a local girl

(B) Because he refused to come give medical attention to a girl who died in the street

(D) Because he molested George Willard

When George Willard says "She hasn't got anything on me. Nobody knows," he is talking about

(A) Louise Trunnion

(B) Elizabeth Willard

(D) Kate Swift

Why does Jesse Bentley inherit his father's farm?

(A) Because he agrees to marry Elizabeth Willard

(B) Because his four brothers die in the Civil War

(D) Because his sister dies of cancer

Jesse Bentley's grandson is named

(A) David Hardy

(B) George Willard

(D) Seth Richmond

Why is Louise Bentley treated badly by the girls she lives with as an adolescent?

(A) Because she is ugly

(B) Because she marries their brother

(D) Because she does well in school and they do badly

What does David Hardy do after he hits Jesse Bentley in the head with a rock?

(A) He runs away and leaves Winesburg

(B) He makes sure the old man is dead, and buries the body in the woods

(D) He prays to God for forgiveness

What kind of team does Joe Welling organize and manage in Winesburg?

(A) Football

(B) Baseball

(D) Bowling

What happened to the man Alice Hindman was in love with?

(A) He died

(B) He married another girl in Winesburg

(D) He left town and stopped writing to her

What does Wash Williams hate?

(A) Women

(B) Blacks

(D) The Willard family

With which girl does Seth Richmond go out walking?

(A) Kate Swift

(B) Helen White

(D) Belle Carpenter

Who gives Tandy Hard her first name?

(A) Her father

(B) Her uncle

(D) Wash Williams

Who does the Reverend Curtis Hartman see when he looks through the window in the bell tower?

(A) Helen White

(B) His wife

(D) George Willard

What is Kate Swift's profession?

(A) Prostitute

(B) Writer

(D) Secretary

What is special about the people who inhabit Enoch Robinson's New York apartment?

(A) They are imaginary

(B) They are all women

(D) They are criminals

Who does Belle Carpenter go out walking with at night?

(A) George Willard

(B) Ed Handby

(D) Seth Richmond

What does Elmer Cowley think that other people call him and his family behind their backs?

(A) "Outsiders"

(B) "Queer"

(D) "Fools"

What does Ray Pearson feel an urge to tell Hal Winters?

(A) That he should leave Winesburg

(B) That he shouldn't have any children

(D) That he should not get married

What does Tom Foster do because he "wanted to learn things?"

(A) Lose his virginity

(B) Kill a man

(D) Go to college

With whom does Doctor Reefy find himself falling in love?

(A) Elizabeth Willard

(B) George Willard

(D) Kate Swift

What did Elizabeth Willard's father leave her?

(A) An automobile

(B) Eight hundred dollars

(D) Nothing

On the night of the Winesburg County Fair, who does George Willard go to see?

(A) Belle Carpenter

(B) Seth Richmond

(D) Helen White

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