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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who ran away from home with the circus?
(a) Flossie Cabanis.
(b) Cooney Potter.
(c) Lucius Atherton.
(d) Sam Hookey.

2. Why was Dr. Siegrfied Iseman thrown in jail?
(a) Selling Elixir of Youth.
(b) Encouraging women not to have children.
(c) Selling hair tonic.
(d) Practicing medicine without a license.

3. What hit Johnnie Sayre?
(a) A horse and rider.
(b) A train.
(c) A tractor.
(d) A carriage.

4. Into what did Mickey M'Grew fall?
(a) Roy Butler's silo.
(b) The mine.
(c) A well.
(d) The water tower.

5. Who took Nellie Clark's innocence?
(a) Charlie.
(b) Bill.
(c) Michael.
(d) Adam.

6. How did Barry Holden kill someone?
(a) With his bare hands.
(b) With a hatchet.
(c) With a knife.
(d) With a shotgun.

7. How did Amanda Barker's husband kill her?
(a) By scaring her, causing a heart attack.
(b) By poisoning her.
(c) By impregnating her.
(d) By stabbing her.

8. How did Jacob Goodpasture lose his son?
(a) The war.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Building a railway.
(d) A bar fight.

9. Whose children did Constance Hately raise?
(a) Her neighbor's.
(b) Her sister's.
(c) Her cousin's.
(d) Her mother's.

10. Whom did Doris Williams marry?
(a) A drunk.
(b) No one.
(c) A cheat.
(d) A pastor.

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

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

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

14. At what age was Nellie Clark's innocence taken?
(a) Twenty-one.
(b) Eight.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Eighteen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the village poetess?

2. What party did John Cabanis lead?

3. What is an epitaph?

4. Whose boat never left harbor?

5. Why was Chase Henry denied burial on holy ground?

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