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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How did Elizabeth Childers lose a child?
(a) During pregnancy.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Giving birth to it.
(d) In a blizzard.
2. What did Alfonzo Churchill study?
(a) Geology.
(b) Latin.
(c) Astronomy.
(d) Philosophy.
3. What did Alfonzo Churchill find in his studies?
(a) Truth.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Spiritual enlightenment.
4. What is the relationship between John Cabanis and the person who returns to Spoon River in The Spooniad?
(a) Father-daughter.
(b) Cousins.
(c) Brother-sister.
(d) Childhood friends.
5. How did a Spoon River resident find God reacted to being cursed?
(a) God killed his wife.
(b) God caused a flood.
(c) God paid no attention.
(d) God killed him.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Edith Conant lament?
2. What did Felix Schmidt lose to Christian Dallman?
3. What does the person condemned by the church do in retaliation?
4. What stands on the lot where James Garber walked to work every day?
5. What did Jennie M'Grew have?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Felix Schmidt lose what little he had in life?
2. Many residents suffered greatly because of bad luck. Give at least one example of such a resident.
3. What role does literature play in the section beginning with Edmund Pollard and ending with Dippold the Optician?
4. Compare and contrast the village atheist and John Ballard.
5. What does the alligator rising out of the mud in Arlo Will's epitaph symbolize?
6. What does Lyman King say about Fate?
7. What do many residents seek in the section beginning with William H. Herndon and ending with Alfonzo Churchill?
8. Who killed Tom Merritt? What happened to Mrs. Merritt and her lover after Tom's murder?
9. What is one theme in the section beginning with William H. Herndon and ending with Alfonzo Churchill?
10. Give three examples of enlightened souls in the section beginning with Edmund Pollard and ending with Dippold the Optician.
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