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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Richard Bone do?
(a) Dug graves.
(b) Drove a hearse.
(c) Chiseled epitaphs.
(d) Made coffins.

4. What was the name of John Wasson's wife?
(a) Rebecca.
(b) Emily.
(c) Mary Anne.
(d) Ruth.

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

6. Who was universally derided by the residents of Spoon River?
(a) Arlo Will.
(b) Lydia Humphrey.
(c) Elijah Browning.
(d) Zilpha Marsh.

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

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

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

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

11. Who believed a close friend or relative must speak to God on your behalf if you die having always rejected Him?
(a) Joseph Dixon.
(b) James Garber.
(c) Aaron Hatfield.
(d) Le Roy Goldman.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Henry Tripp when the bank broke?

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

3. How did Immanuel Ehrenhardt look for the secret of life?

4. Who zigzagged aimlessly?

5. How did Elizabeth Childers lose a child?

(see the answer keys)

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