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Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Wash Williams spat forth a succession of vile oaths. “Yes, she is dead,” he agreed. “She is dead as all women are dead. She is a living-dead thing, walking in the sight of men and making the earth foul by her presence.” Staring into the boy’s eyes, the man became purple with ___. “Don’t have fool notions in your head,” he commanded

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Wash Williams was a man of ___. A thing had happened to him that made him hate life, and he hated it whole-heartedly, with the abandon of a poet. First of all, he hated women. “Bitches,” he called them. His feeling toward men was somewhat different. He pitied them. “Does not every man let his life be managed for him by some bitch or another?” he asked

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: When the operator remained silent and seemed to have changed his mind about talking, he tried to make conversation. “Where you ever married, Mr Williams?” he ___

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: An old nigger woman named Mollie Beauchamp,’ Stevens said. ‘She and her husband live on the Edmond’s place. It’s her grandson. You remember him – Butch Beauchamp, about five or six years ago, who spent a year in town, mostly in ___, until they finally caught him breaking into Rouncewell’s store one night? Well, he’s in worth trouble than that now

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And by Jupiter, if I had and if she had known what we know even, I ___ she would have said yes. But I didn’t say it. I just said, “Why, you couldn’t read it, Aunty.” And she said, “Miss Belle will show me where to look and I can look at hit. You put hit in de paper. All of hit.”’

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And on the next bright hot day but one of the hearse and the two cars were waiting when the southbound train ___. There were more than a dozen cars, but it was not until the train came in that Stevens and the editor began to notice the number of people, Negroes and whites both

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And that’s who I am to find, save, Stevens thought. Because he did not for a moment doubt the old Negress’s ___. If she had also been able to divine where the boy was and what his trouble was, he would not have been surprised, and it was only later that he thought to be surprised at how quickly he did find where the boy was and what was wrong

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Because at nineteen he had quit the country and come to town and spent a year in and out of jail for gambling and fighting, to come at last under serious indictment for breaking and entering a ___

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Because he did not for a moment doubt the old Negress’s instinct And not the sheriff, the police, he thought. Something broader, quicker in scope… He rose and took his old fine worn panama and descended the outside stairs and crossed the empty square in the hot suspension of noon’s beginning, to the ___of the county newspaper

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Caught red-handed, whereupon he had struck with a piece of iron pipe at the officer who surprised him and then lay on the ground where the officer had felled him with a pistol-butt, ___ through his broken mouth, his teeth fixed into something like furious laughter through the blood

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Children stopping before the cage are fascinated, men turn away with an air of disgust, and women ___ for a moment, trying perhaps to remember which one of their male acquaintances the thing in some faint was resembles

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Five minutes later Stevens was crossing again the empty square in which noon’s hot suspension was that much nearer. He had thought that he was going home to his boarding-house for the noon meal, but he found that he was not. ‘Besides, I didn’t ___ my office door,’ he thought

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Had you been in the earlier years of your life a citizen of the village of Winesburg, Ohio, there would have been for you no ___ in regard to the beast in his cage

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He sat in the hot motion which was not breeze and listened to her toiling slowly down the steep outside stairs, remembering the grandson. The papers of that business had passed across the desk before going to the District Attorney five or six years ago – Butch Beauchamp, as the youth had been known during the single year he had spent in and out of the city ___

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He ___ now that it was Edmonds who had actually sent the boy to Jefferson in the first place: he had caught the boy breaking into his commissary store and had ordered him off the place and had forbidden him ever to return. And that’s who I am to find, save, Stevens thought

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: His first thought was to telephone Carothers Edmonds, on whose farm the old Negress’s husband had been a ___ for years. But then, according to her, Edmonds had already refused to have anything to do with it. Then he sat perfectly still while the hot wind blew in his wild white mane. Now he comprehended what the old Negress had meant

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I go too fast. Not everything about Wash was unclean. He took care of his hands. His fingers were ___, but there was something sensitive and shapely in the hand that lay on the table by the instrument in the telegraph office

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: If you have lived in cities and have walked in the park on a summer afternoon, you have perhaps seen, blinking in a corner of his iron cage, a huge, grotesque kind of monkey, a creature with ugly, ___, hairless skin below his eyes and a bright purple underbody

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: In his youth Wash Williams had been called the best telegraph operator in the state, and in spite of his degradement to the obscure ___ at Winesburg, he was still proud of his ability

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Only, how under the sun she could have got to town from those seventeen miles. She may even have walked. ‘So it seems I didn’t mean what I said I hoped,’ he said aloud, mounting the outside stairs again, out of the hazy and now windless sunglare, and entered his ___. He stopped

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: She wanted that casket and those flowers and the hearse and she wanted to ride through town behind it in a car. ‘Come on’ he said. ‘Let’s ___back to town. I haven’t seen my desk in two days.’

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Stevens reached over and cut the switch, so that the editor’s ___coasted, slowing as he began to brake it, the hearse and the other car drawing rapidly away now as though in flight, the light and unrained summer dust spurting from beneath the fleeing wheels; soon they were gone

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The editor was in – an older man but with hair less white than Stevens’s, in a black string tie and an old-fashioned boiled shirt and tremendously ___

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Then two nights later he broke out of jail and was seen no more – a youth not yet twenty-one, with something in him from the father who begot and deserted him and who was now in the State ___ for mans laughter – some seed not only violent but dangerous and bad

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Then, with Miss Worsham and the old Negress in Stevens’s car with the driver he had ___ and himself and the editor in the editor’s, they followed the hearse as it swung into the long hill up from the station, going fast in a whining lower gear until it reached the crest, going pretty fast still but with an unctuous, an almost bishoplike purr until it slowed into the square

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Then, with the idle white men and youths and small boys and probably half a hundred Negroes, men and women too, watching quietly, the Negro undertaker’s men lifted the grey-and-silver casket from the train and ___ it to the hearse and snatched the wreaths and floral symbols of man’s ultimate and inevitable end briskly out and slid the casket in and flung the flowers back and clapped-to the door

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: This monkey is a true monster. In the completeness of his ugliness he achieved a kind of ___ beauty

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Wash Williams, the telegraph operator of Winesburg, was the ugliest thing in town. His girth was immense, his neck thin, his legs feeble. He was ___. Everything about him was unclean. Even the whites of his eyes looked soiled

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: When they reached the edge of town the hearse was going quite fast. Now they flashed past the metal sigh which said Jefferson. Corporate limit, and the pavement vanished, slanting away into another long ___, becoming gravel

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: ‘Oh,’ Stevens said. Yes, he thought. It doesn’t matter to her now. Since it had to be and she couldn’t ___ it, and now that it’s all over and done and finished, she doesn’t care how he died. She just wanted him home, but she wanted him to come home right

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: ‘That’s what I said,’ the editor said. ‘ And she said it again: “Is you gonter put hit in de paper? I wants hit all in de paper. All of hit.” And I wanted to say, “If I should happen to know how he really died, do you want that in ___”

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: “It is like Wash Williams,” you would have said. “As he sits in the corner there, the beast is exactly like the old Wash sitting on the ___ in the station yard on a summer evening after he has closed his office for the night.”

Choose the right preposition: . I hated the men I thought had wronged her. I was sick of being alone and wanted her back. The longer I waited the more raw and tender I became. I thought that if she came in and just touched me ___ her hand I would perhaps faint away. I ached to forgive and forget

Choose the right preposition: . Up along Main Street he went in the evening to Ed Griffith’s saloon, and after drinking unbelievable quantities of beer staggered off to his room in the New Willard House and ___ his bed for the night

Choose the right preposition: And if you belong ___ the half to whom waiters’ checks are things of moment, you should know Bogle’s, for there you get your money’s worth – in quantity, at least

Choose the right preposition: Another one known as ‘Freshy’, who rode ___ the Traction Company’s repair wagon, was going to give her a poodle as soon as his brother got the hauling contract in the Ninth. And the man who always ate spareribs and spinach and said he was a stockbroker asked her to go to ‘Parsifal’ with him

Choose the right preposition: At least twice a week someone took her ___ a theatre or to a dance. One stout gentleman whom she and Tildy had privately christened ‘The Hog’ presented her with a turquoise ring

Choose the right preposition: At the cashier’s desk sits Bogle, cold, sordid, slow, smouldering, and takes your money. Behind a mountain of toothpicks he makes your change, files your check, and ejects ___ you, like a toad, a word about the weather. Beyond a corroboration of his meteorological statement you would better not venture

Choose the right preposition: Bogle’s is situated ___ that highway of bourgeoisie, that boulevard of Brown- Jones-and-Robinson, Eighth Avenue. There are two rows of tables in the room, six in each row. On each table is a castor-stand, containing cruets of condiments and seasons

Choose the right preposition: For a moment there was a catch in the voice of the man talking in the darkness. “I loved her,” he said. “I don’t claim not to be a fool. I love her yet . There ___ the dusk in the spring evening I crawled along the black ground to her feet and groveled before her. I kissed her shoes and the ankles above her shoes

Choose the right preposition: From the pepper cruet you may shake a cloud of something tasteless and melancholy, like volcanic dust. From the salt cruet you may expect nothing. Though a man should extract a sanguinary stream from the pallid turnip, yet will his prowess be balked when he comes to wrest salt ___ Bogle’s cruets

Choose the right preposition: George Willard went one evening to walk with Belle Carpenter, a trimmer of women’s hats who worked in a millinery shop kept ___ Mrs. Kate McHugh. The young man was not in love with the woman, who, in fact, had a suitor who worked as bartender in Ed Griffith’s saloon, but as they walked about under the trees they occasionally embraced

Choose the right preposition: Had you been in the earlier years of your life a citizen of the village of Winesburg, Ohio, there would have been for you no mystery in regard to the beast in his cage. “It is like Wash Williams,” you would have said. “As he sits ___the corner there, the beast is exactly like the old Wash sitting on the grass in the station yard on a summer evening after he has closed his office for the night.”

Choose the right preposition: He had put Wash into the obscure office ___ Winesburg to avoid discharging him, and he meant to keep him there. When he received the letter of complaint from the banker’s wife, he tore it up and laughed unpleasantly. For some reason he thought of his own wife as he tore up the letter

Choose the right preposition: I go too fast. Not everything about Wash was unclean. He took care ___ his hands. His fingers were fat, but there was something sensitive and shapely in the hand that lay on the table by the instrument in the telegraph office

Choose the right preposition: I was married, sure. My wife was dead before she married me, she was a foul thing come out ___ a woman more foul. She was a thing sent to make life unbearable to me. I was a fool, do you see, as you are now, and so I married this woman

Choose the right preposition: I would like to see men a little begin to understand women. They are sent to prevent men making the world worth while. It is a trick in Nature. Ugh! They are creeping, crawling, squirming things, they ___ their soft hands and blue

Choose the right preposition: If the transients were entranced by the fascinating Aileen, the regulars were her adorers. There was much rivalry ___ many of the steady customers. Aileen could have had an engagement every evening

Choose the right preposition: If you do not know Bogle’s Chop house and Family Restaurant it is your loss. For if you are one ___the fortunate ones who dine expensively you should be interested to know how the other half consumes provisions

Choose the right preposition: If you have lived in cities and have walked in the park on a summer afternoon, you have perhaps seen, blinking in a corner ___ his iron cage, a huge, grotesque kind of monkey, a creature with ugly, sagging, hairless skin below his eyes and a bright purple underbody