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

4. Who or what did Lydia Humphrey love?
(a) Joseph Dixon.
(b) The church.
(c) The United States.
(d) Webster Ford.

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

6. Of what did Aaron Hatfield speak?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) The peasant boy from Galilee.
(c) The mother of the Lord.
(d) Eternal life.

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

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

9. Who abandons the conservative party in favor of the liberal party?
(a) Bengal Mike.
(b) Jefferson Howard.
(c) Nicholas Bindle.
(d) John Cabanis.

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

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

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

13. What does the person condemned by the church do in retaliation?
(a) Burn the church down.
(b) Burn the courthouse down.
(c) Leave town.
(d) Throw a dance.

14. What did Hiram Scates run for president of?
(a) School Board.
(b) County Board.
(c) State Board.
(d) United States of America.

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