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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who stole blankets?
(a) Eugene Carman.
(b) Mrs. Purkapile.
(c) Clarence Fawcett.
(d) Editor Whedon.

2. How does Cassius Hueffer's headstone describe him?
(a) A warrior.
(b) Gentle.
(c) Loving.
(d) Friendly.

3. What did Eugenia Todd see the destructiveness of?
(a) Thwarted love.
(b) Money.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Hypocrisy.

4. Who was a vegetarian and free-thinker?
(a) Mrs. Kessler.
(b) Professor Newcomer.
(c) W. Lloyd Garrison Standard.
(d) Alexander Throckmorton.

5. Who tried to memorize the Encyclopedia Britannica?
(a) Ruben Pantier.
(b) Daisy Fraser.
(c) Frank Drummer.
(d) Butch Weldy.

6. Where does Serepta Mason place the blame for blowing her petals away?
(a) The bitter winds of life.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Spoon River.
(d) The fact that she never married.

7. Who was born blind?
(a) Sarah Brown.
(b) Johnnie Sayre.
(c) Lois Spears.
(d) Willard Fluke.

8. Who burned down Nancy Knapp's house?
(a) Wendell P. Bloyd.
(b) Franklin Jones.
(c) Nancy Knapp.
(d) Pauline Barrett.

9. Who wrote "Spoon River Anthology"?
(a) Carl Sandburg.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Edgar Lee Masters.
(d) David Foster Wallace.

10. Whose sermons were burned as waste paper?
(a) Jonas Keene.
(b) Judge Somers.
(c) Lemuel Wiley.
(d) Abner Peet.

11. Under what kind of tree did Conrad Siever work?
(a) Apple.
(b) Pear.
(c) Mango.
(d) Peach.

12. Who killed Yee Bow?
(a) The minister.
(b) The minister's son.
(c) The sheriff.
(d) The sheriff's wife.

13. How did Amanda Barker's husband kill her?
(a) By impregnating her.
(b) By poisoning her.
(c) By stabbing her.
(d) By scaring her, causing a heart attack.

14. With whom was Rosie Roberts angry?
(a) The military.
(b) Hortense Robbins.
(c) A. D. Blood.
(d) The crooked police.

15. Why did no one in Spoon River like Dorcas Gustine?
(a) She wore pants.
(b) She spoke her mind.
(c) She lived with a man without being married.
(d) She did not attend church services.

Short Answer Questions

1. What poem describes the Spoon River Cemetery?

2. Under what did Washington McNeely rest?

3. For whom did Daniel M'Cumber never return?

4. Who was the village poetess?

5. How did Barry Holden kill someone?

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