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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Ippolit Konovaloff work?
(a) Omaha.
(b) Odessa.
(c) Springfield.
(d) Spoon River.

2. Who believed Life is for feasting upon?
(a) Jeduthan Hawley.
(b) Edmund Pollard.
(c) Thomas Trevelyan.
(d) Daisy Fraser.

3. Why does The Spooniad end abruptly?
(a) It is a fragment.
(b) Bengal Mike is telling the story.
(c) Edgar Lee Masters died before completing it.
(d) Edgar Lee Masters did not know how to end it.

4. Whose work did Thomas Trevelyan read?
(a) Dante's.
(b) Thomas Aquinas's.
(c) Sophocles'.
(d) Ovid's.

5. With what was Webster Ford infatuated?
(a) God.
(b) Judson Stoddard.
(c) Oranges.
(d) Delphic Apollo.

6. Where did Lucinda Matlock's husband see the activity of human life?
(a) In a beehive.
(b) In schools of fish.
(c) In an ant farm.
(d) In the life of a spider.

7. Who zigzagged aimlessly?
(a) Scholfield Hurley.
(b) William Jones.
(c) William Goode.
(d) J. Milton Miles.

8. Where did Archibald Higbie move to?
(a) London.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Paris.
(d) Rome.

9. Who is condemned by the church?
(a) Hog-eyed Allen.
(b) A transient who was passing through.
(c) John Cabanis.
(d) Flossie.

10. Whom did Elliot Hawkins look like?
(a) John Hancock.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) John Adams.

11. Who dreamed of righting the wrongs of the world?
(a) Seth Compton.
(b) Oaks Tutt.
(c) Abel Melveny.
(d) Elliot Hawkins.

12. How did a Spoon River resident find God reacted to being cursed?
(a) God killed his wife.
(b) God caused a flood.
(c) God paid no attention.
(d) God killed him.

13. What did Alfonzo Churchill study?
(a) Geology.
(b) Latin.
(c) Astronomy.
(d) Philosophy.

14. Who was the Sunday school superintendent?
(a) Calvin Campbell.
(b) John Wasson.
(c) Lyman King.
(d) Henry Phipps.

15. To what age did Lucinda Matlock live?
(a) One hundred and two.
(b) Ninety-six.
(c) Seventy-three.
(d) Eighty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what did Henry C. Calhoun seek to punish?

2. Of what did Aaron Hatfield speak?

3. Whom did Harlan Sewall repay?

4. What did Seth Compton build?

5. What did Felix Schmidt lose to Christian Dallman?

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