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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where did Gustav Richter work long days?
(a) The bank.
(b) The streets.
(c) His hot-houses.
(d) His farm.

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

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

7. What did Richard Bone do?
(a) Chiseled epitaphs.
(b) Made coffins.
(c) Drove a hearse.
(d) Dug graves.

8. What was the name of Lucinda Matlock's husband?
(a) Henry.
(b) Davis.
(c) Milton.
(d) William.

9. What did Seth Compton build?
(a) An outhouse.
(b) A family.
(c) The first restaurant in Spoon River.
(d) The Spoon River Library.

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

11. What did Alfonzo Churchill find in his studies?
(a) Truth.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Spiritual enlightenment.
(d) Beauty.

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

13. When did Hamlet Micure have visions?
(a) Under hypnosis.
(b) While fasting.
(c) While drunk.
(d) During a long fever.

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

15. Who killed Tom Merritt?
(a) His wife's lover.
(b) His lover.
(c) His wife.
(d) His lover's husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Harry Wilmans follow the flag to?

2. What did Alfonzo Churchill study?

3. Whom did Harlan Sewall repay?

4. Whom did Godwin James hate?

5. What did people think of Willie Pennington?

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