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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dippold the Optician see eyeglass lenses as a metaphor for?
(a) Relationships between spouses.
(b) Truth.
(c) Spiritual understanding.
(d) Faith.

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

3. Who is sent by the conservative party to intimidate voters?
(a) Hog-eyed Allen.
(b) A. D. Blood.
(c) Jefferson Howard.
(d) Bengal Mike.

4. What did Joseph Dixon tune?
(a) Flutes.
(b) Guitars and pianos.
(c) Harps and pianos.
(d) Violins and cellos.

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

6. In what did Mabel Osborne see her life?
(a) A discarded banana peel.
(b) A drooping geranium.
(c) Gray dish water.
(d) Unfolded laundry.

7. Where did Aaron Hatfield speak?
(a) Spoon River Church.
(b) Springfield Church.
(c) Concord Church.
(d) Spoon River Town Square.

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

9. What saved Alfred Moir's soul?
(a) Love.
(b) A book.
(c) A prayer.
(d) A sunrise.

10. What did Jennie M'Grew have?
(a) The faith of a child.
(b) Wisdom beyond her years.
(c) An incredible ear for music.
(d) Second sight.

11. Who stands against the plan to overthrow the conservative party?
(a) Hog-eyed Allen.
(b) John Cabanis.
(c) Nicholas Bindle.
(d) Jefferson Howard.

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

13. Whom did Harlan Sewall repay?
(a) Mabel Osborne.
(b) Ippolit Konovaloff.
(c) The unknown one.
(d) A British soldier.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what did Russell Kincaid have a kinship?

2. Who is condemned by the church?

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

4. Who was universally derided by the residents of Spoon River?

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

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