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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through John Cabanis-Searcy Foote.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Widow McFarlane do for the village?
(a) Watch children.
(b) Weave carpets.
(c) Bake pies.
(d) Clean houses.

2. Who shot the Marshal?
(a) Deacon Taylor.
(b) Theodore the Poet.
(c) Sam Hookey.
(d) Jack McGuire.

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

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

5. What celebrated public figure is buried in an unmarked grave?
(a) Kinsey Keene.
(b) Judge Somers.
(c) Minerva Jones.
(d) Frank Drummer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was crushed by a falling carriage?

2. Whom did the Rev. Lemuel Wiley save from divorce?

3. Whom did John M. Church defend?

4. What did Eugenia Todd see the destructiveness of?

5. How long was Louise Smith engaged?

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