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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the daughter of Lambert Hutchins?
(a) Hortense Robbins.
(b) Rosie Roberts.
(c) Mrs. Bandle.
(d) Lilian Stewart.

2. Whom did Barry Holden kill?
(a) His neighbor.
(b) His wife.
(c) His pregnant wife.
(d) His mother.

3. How did Hod Putt die?
(a) He was robbed and shot.
(b) He killed himself.
(c) He was hanged.
(d) He died of consumption.

4. Whom is Hod Putt buried next to?
(a) Amanda Barker.
(b) Robert Fulton Tanner.
(c) Old Bill Piersol.
(d) Ollie McGee.

5. Who said that love is to find your own soul through the soul of another?
(a) Amelia Garrick.
(b) Elsa Wertman.
(c) Mary McNeely.
(d) Ida Chickens.

6. Who was destroyed by his brother's ambition?
(a) Thomas Ross, Jr.
(b) Amos Sibley.
(c) Jim Brown.
(d) Washington McNeely.

7. With how many memories did Fiddler Jones die?
(a) A hundred thousand.
(b) None.
(c) A thousand.
(d) A hundred.

8. Where was Russian Sonia from?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Russia.
(d) England.

9. Where does Serepta Mason place the blame for blowing her petals away?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Spoon River.
(c) The bitter winds of life.
(d) The fact that she never married.

10. Who had terrible dreams?
(a) Julia Miller.
(b) Justice Arnett.
(c) Zenas Witt.
(d) Flossie Cabanis.

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

12. What is an epitaph?
(a) A poem or other writing about a deceased person.
(b) A spiritual revelation.
(c) A satirical or witty poem or phrase.
(d) A speech given at a funeral.

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

14. Where did Daniel M'Cumber go?
(a) Europe.
(b) The city.
(c) The ocean.
(d) No one knows.

15. Where does The Unknown search?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Hades.
(c) Earth.
(d) The Hill.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what animal does Robert Fulton Tanner compare man?

2. What party did John Cabanis abandon?

3. What celebrated public figure is buried in an unmarked grave?

4. How did Amanda Barker's husband kill her?

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

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