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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 tarred and feathered?
(a) Tom Beatty.
(b) Jonathon Swift Somers.
(c) Alexander Throckmorton.
(d) Carl Hamblin.

2. Who always had the face of a boy?
(a) Father Malloy.
(b) Harlan Sewall.
(c) Ami Green.
(d) Charles Webster.

3. What did Richard Bone do?
(a) Chiseled epitaphs.
(b) Drove a hearse.
(c) Made coffins.
(d) Dug graves.

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

5. What poem describes the Spoon River Cemetery?
(a) "The Hill."
(b) "The Cemetery."
(c) "Spoon River Cemetery."
(d) "Ollie McGee."

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose work did Thomas Trevelyan read?

2. How did Ollie and Fletcher feel about each other?

3. Who wrote "Spoon River Anthology"?

4. What is an epitaph?

5. Who wrote an article on the intelligence of plants?

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