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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why did a resident of Spoon River steal blankets?
(a) To pay a doctor's bill.
(b) To keep warm.
(c) To trade for food.
(d) To sell.

4. Where was Charlie French hurt by a toy pistol?
(a) His elbow.
(b) His hand.
(c) His cheek.
(d) His foot.

5. How did Pauline Barrett die?
(a) She killed herself.
(b) She died because she could not reach the surgeon in time.
(c) She died in surgery.
(d) She died from an infection after surgery.

6. How did Harold Arnett die?
(a) His wife poisoned his potatoes.
(b) Old age.
(c) He shot himself.
(d) A bar fight.

7. Whose name was daily in the papers?
(a) Widow McFarlane.
(b) Rosie Roberts.
(c) Mrs. Bandle.
(d) Hortense Robbins.

8. Where did Doc Hill pour out his love?
(a) His son.
(b) His wife.
(c) His career.
(d) The town.

9. Whom is Chase Henry buried next to?
(a) A priest.
(b) The town drunkard.
(c) A wealthy banker.
(d) A nun.

10. For whom did Daniel M'Cumber never return?
(a) Amelia Garrick.
(b) Mrs. Sibley.
(c) Georgine Sand Miner.
(d) Mary McNeely.

11. Whose sermons were burned as waste paper?
(a) Judge Somers.
(b) Abner Peet.
(c) Jonas Keene.
(d) Lemuel Wiley.

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

13. Who was crushed by a falling carriage?
(a) State's Attorney Fallas.
(b) Blind Jack.
(c) Hon. Henry Bennett.
(d) The Circuit Judge.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What hit Johnnie Sayre?

2. With how many regrets did Fiddler Jones die?

3. What language did Ida Chickens study?

4. Where did Daniel M'Cumber go?

5. How does Cassius Hueffer's headstone describe him?

(see the answer keys)

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