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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did people think of Willie Pennington?
(a) He was a simpleton.
(b) He was envious of his brothers.
(c) He had no ambition.
(d) He sabotaged his brothers.

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

3. Why did Hannah Armstrong contact President Lincoln?
(a) About an Army discharge.
(b) To discover his favorite meal.
(c) To thank him for his work.
(d) About taxes.

4. Who cursed God?
(a) Willie Pennington.
(b) Julian Scott.
(c) The Village Atheist.
(d) John Ballard.

5. Where did Harry Wilmans follow the flag to?
(a) Beijing.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Manila.
(d) Africa.

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

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

8. Who returns to Spoon River in The Spooniad?
(a) Jefferson.
(b) Gerald.
(c) Flossie.
(d) Amanda.

9. What happened to Henry Tripp when the bank broke?
(a) He lost his farm.
(b) He lost his savings.
(c) He lost his job.
(d) He no longer had a mortgage.

10. Why did Harlan Sewall repay someone?
(a) For giving him goods on credit.
(b) For friendship.
(c) For healing him.
(d) For sparing his life.

11. What was Ippolit Konovaloff's occupation?
(a) Cattle wrangler.
(b) Gunsmith.
(c) Blacksmith.
(d) Handyman.

12. What did Elijah Browning tell a story about?
(a) Crossing a desert.
(b) Climbing a mountain.
(c) Swimming the English Channel.
(d) Making it rain.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who ignored Hildrup Tubbs for many years?

2. Whose work did Thomas Trevelyan read?

3. What saved Alfred Moir's soul?

4. Who wrote an article on the intelligence of plants?

5. Where did Archibald Higbie move to?

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