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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who believed a close friend or relative must speak to God on your behalf if you die having always rejected Him?
(a) Aaron Hatfield.
(b) James Garber.
(c) Joseph Dixon.
(d) Le Roy Goldman.

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

3. Who always had the face of a boy?
(a) Father Malloy.
(b) Harlan Sewall.
(c) Ami Green.
(d) Charles Webster.

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

5. Who died the same week as Daisy Fraser?
(a) Jeduthan Hawley.
(b) Granville Calhoun.
(c) Peleg Poague.
(d) Oaks Tutt.

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

7. What did Calvin Campbell wonder about a plant?
(a) How it can grow in dark places.
(b) How it knows to be itchy.
(c) How it knows when to bloom.
(d) How it finds poison in the soil.

8. What did Felix Schmidt lose to Christian Dallman?
(a) His life savings.
(b) His five-acre plot.
(c) His team of horses.
(d) His wife.

9. On whom does The Spooniad focus?
(a) Nicholas Bindle.
(b) Hog-eyed Allen.
(c) Jefferson Howard.
(d) John Cabanis.

10. What love of William Jones's made him beloved?
(a) Conversation.
(b) God.
(c) Books.
(d) Nature.

11. What was the name of John Wasson's wife?
(a) Emily.
(b) Mary Anne.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Rebecca.

12. What did Edith Conant lament?
(a) Dying alone.
(b) The death of her husband.
(c) Never leaving Spoon River.
(d) Change.

13. Who died and left his beloved behind, bidding her to be brave?
(a) Charles Webster.
(b) Henry Phipps.
(c) Harlan Sewall.
(d) Father Malloy.

14. What was the name of Rebecca Wasson's husband?
(a) Michael.
(b) John.
(c) Avery.
(d) Paul.

15. Whom did Godwin James hate?
(a) John Wasson.
(b) Lyman King.
(c) Harry Wilmans.
(d) Caroline Branson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who killed Tom Merritt?

2. Who is sent by the liberal party to intimidate voters?

3. Whom did Elliot Hawkins look like?

4. What did William H. Herndon see in his memory?

5. Who enlarged ambrotypes of pioneers?

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