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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did Alfonzo Churchill study?
(a) Latin.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Geology.
2. Who returns to Spoon River in The Spooniad?
(a) Jefferson.
(b) Amanda.
(c) Gerald.
(d) Flossie.
3. What did Jennie M'Grew have?
(a) The faith of a child.
(b) Second sight.
(c) Wisdom beyond her years.
(d) An incredible ear for music.
4. What did Dippold the Optician see eyeglass lenses as a metaphor for?
(a) Spiritual understanding.
(b) Relationships between spouses.
(c) Truth.
(d) Faith.
5. What love of William Jones's made him beloved?
(a) Books.
(b) God.
(c) Nature.
(d) Conversation.
6. Who saw the countless wonders of God's creation all around him?
(a) Tennessee Claflin Slope.
(b) The Village Atheist.
(c) Scholfield Hurley.
(d) Plymouth Rock Joe.
7. Why did Hannah Armstrong contact President Lincoln?
(a) To thank him for his work.
(b) About an Army discharge.
(c) About taxes.
(d) To discover his favorite meal.
8. How did Elizabeth Childers lose a child?
(a) Giving birth to it.
(b) During pregnancy.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) In a blizzard.
9. Where did Archibald Higbie move to?
(a) Rome.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Berlin.
10. Of what did Aaron Hatfield speak?
(a) The peasant boy from Galilee.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) The mother of the Lord.
(d) Eternal life.
11. What saved Alfred Moir's soul?
(a) A sunrise.
(b) A prayer.
(c) A book.
(d) Love.
12. Where did Ippolit Konovaloff work?
(a) Springfield.
(b) Omaha.
(c) Spoon River.
(d) Odessa.
13. What did Calvin Campbell wonder about a plant?
(a) How it can grow in dark places.
(b) How it finds poison in the soil.
(c) How it knows when to bloom.
(d) How it knows to be itchy.
14. Where did Lucinda Matlock's husband see the activity of human life?
(a) In an ant farm.
(b) In a beehive.
(c) In schools of fish.
(d) In the life of a spider.
15. What is the relationship between John Cabanis and the person who returns to Spoon River in The Spooniad?
(a) Childhood friends.
(b) Cousins.
(c) Father-daughter.
(d) Brother-sister.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is condemned by the church?
2. Who or what did Henry C. Calhoun seek to punish?
3. Why did Harlan Sewall repay someone?
4. What happened to Henry Tripp when the bank broke?
5. What did Joseph Dixon tune?
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