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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. Where did Gustav Richter work long days?
(a) His farm.
(b) His hot-houses.
(c) The streets.
(d) The bank.

2. Whom did the Rev. Lemuel Wiley save from divorce?
(a) The Crouses.
(b) The Wards.
(c) The Pinkertons.
(d) The Blisses.

3. In what did Mabel Osborne see her life?
(a) Unfolded laundry.
(b) Gray dish water.
(c) A drooping geranium.
(d) A discarded banana peel.

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

5. With whose beliefs did Jefferson Howard fight valiantly?
(a) His brother's.
(b) Rev. Lemuel Wiley's.
(c) His father's.
(d) His wife's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was universally derided by the residents of Spoon River?

2. How did Hod Putt die?

3. Who accidentally shot himself in the heart?

4. What did Joseph Dixon tune?

5. How did Elizabeth Childers lose a child?

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