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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what age did Lucinda Matlock live?
(a) Seventy-three.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Ninety-six.
(d) One hundred and two.

3. Whom do the people want to see lynched as The Spooniad ends?
(a) John Cabanis.
(b) Hog-Eyed Allen.
(c) Bengal Mike.
(d) Nicholas Bindle.

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

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

6. What did Silas Dement burn down?
(a) Spoon River Church.
(b) Spoon River Courthouse.
(c) Spoon River School.
(d) Jonathon Houghton's barn.

7. With what was Webster Ford infatuated?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Delphic Apollo.
(c) Judson Stoddard.
(d) God.

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

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

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

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

12. Who zigzagged aimlessly?
(a) William Jones.
(b) J. Milton Miles.
(c) William Goode.
(d) Scholfield Hurley.

13. What was the name of Rebecca Wasson's husband?
(a) John.
(b) Avery.
(c) Paul.
(d) Michael.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who died the same week as Daisy Fraser?

2. Who cursed God?

3. Who is sent by the conservative party to intimidate voters?

4. Who or what did Lydia Humphrey love?

5. What did Alfonzo Churchill study?

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