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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Zilpha Marsh-Webser Ford.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the several-times mayor of Spoon River?
(a) A. D. Blood.
(b) Hon. Henry Bennett.
(c) Sersmith the Dentist.
(d) John Horace Burleson.

2. Who wrote an article on the intelligence of plants?
(a) Dillard Sissman.
(b) Abel Melveny.
(c) Perry Zoll.
(d) Shack Dye.

3. By whom was Dora Williams abandoned?
(a) Robert Southey Burke.
(b) Fiddler Jones.
(c) Charles Bliss.
(d) Ruben Pantier.

4. Who was universally derided by the residents of Spoon River?
(a) Zilpha Marsh.
(b) Arlo Will.
(c) Elijah Browning.
(d) Lydia Humphrey.

5. Where did Aaron Hatfield speak?
(a) Spoon River Town Square.
(b) Spoon River Church.
(c) Concord Church.
(d) Springfield Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Barry Holden kill?

2. What did Joseph Dixon tune?

3. At what age was Nellie Clark's innocence taken?

4. What did Franklin Jones need one more year to finish?

5. Who or what did Lydia Humphrey love?

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