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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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 did Searcy Foote murder?
(a) Uncle Percy.
(b) Grandmother Persephone.
(c) Cousin Polly.
(d) Aunt Persis.

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

6. Who stole blankets?
(a) Mrs. Purkapile.
(b) Eugene Carman.
(c) Editor Whedon.
(d) Clarence Fawcett.

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

8. Who accidentally shot himself in the heart?
(a) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(b) Doc Hill.
(c) Dorcas Gustine.
(d) Nicholas Bindle.

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

10. What was Searcy Foote's murder weapon?
(a) Shotgun.
(b) Arsenic.
(c) Knife.
(d) Chloroform.

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

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. Why did no one in Spoon River like Dorcas Gustine?
(a) She lived with a man without being married.
(b) She did not attend church services.
(c) She spoke her mind.
(d) She wore pants.

14. Under what kind of tree did Conrad Siever work?
(a) Apple.
(b) Pear.
(c) Peach.
(d) Mango.

15. With what did A. D. Blood kill Oscar Hummel?
(a) A stick.
(b) A pitchfork.
(c) A rock.
(d) A plank of wood.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Barry Holden kill someone?

2. With how many regrets did Fiddler Jones die?

3. What party did John Cabanis abandon?

4. What poem describes the Spoon River Cemetery?

5. With whose beliefs did Jefferson Howard fight valiantly?

(see the answer keys)

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