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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the relationship between John Cabanis and the person who returns to Spoon River in The Spooniad?
(a) Childhood friends.
(b) Father-daughter.
(c) Cousins.
(d) Brother-sister.

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

5. Who or what did Henry C. Calhoun seek to punish?
(a) Spoon River.
(b) Judge Somers.
(c) The jury who convicted him.
(d) Dippold the Optician.

6. With what did Russell Kincaid have a kinship?
(a) An apple tree.
(b) A clock.
(c) An rose bush.
(d) A horse.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Where did Archibald Higbie move to?
(a) Paris.
(b) Rome.
(c) Berlin.
(d) London.

15. How did Elizabeth Childers lose a child?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Giving birth to it.
(c) During pregnancy.
(d) In a blizzard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hiram Scates run for president of?

2. What was the name of Lucinda Matlock's husband?

3. Who dreamed of righting the wrongs of the world?

4. When did Hamlet Micure have visions?

5. To what age did Lucinda Matlock live?

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