Q 01/05

Sherwood Anderson, author of Winesburg, Ohio, died in Panama after accidentally swallowing which small object?

A) A fish bone

B) A toothpick

C) A cherry stone

D) A shirt button

Answer · why

B) A toothpick

A toothpick, an autopsy found, had pierced his insides and caused fatal peritonitis; he was taken ill on a cruise to South America, aged 64.

Q 02/05

In Loneliness, what does Enoch Robinson fill his locked New York room with once he stops inviting friends in?

A) Caged songbirds

B) Second-hand books

C) Potted ferns

D) Shadow people

Answer · why

D) Shadow people

Shadow people, about two dozen figures of his own fancy, share the room and let him talk last and best, among them a woman with a sword and an old man...

Q 03/05

Wash Williams, the filthy woman-hater of Respectability, holds which job at the Winesburg railroad station?

A) Telegraph operator

B) Ticket agent

C) Freight yard foreman

D) Night watchman

Answer · why

A) Telegraph operator

Telegraph operator was a trade he had once been called the best at in the whole state, before his marriage collapsed and he was tucked away in the obs...

Q 04/05

In The Strength of God, what does Reverend Curtis Hartman smash with his fist after watching Kate Swift pray?

A) A pulpit lamp

B) A bedroom mirror

C) A church window

D) A study door

Answer · why

C) A church window

A church window in the bell tower was his peephole into her bedroom, and he hurries off bleeding to tell George Willard that God has appeared to him i...

Q 05/05

Paper Pills likens Doctor Reefy's courtship to which gnarled fruit, left on Winesburg's trees by the pickers?

A) Apples

B) Pears

C) Plums

D) Quinces

Answer · why

A) Apples

Apples too twisted to ship to the city hold all their sweetness in one small spot, the tale says, and they look like the knuckles of the doctor's hand...