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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did Richard Bone do?
(a) Made coffins.
(b) Drove a hearse.
(c) Chiseled epitaphs.
(d) Dug graves.
2. Why did Henry C. Calhoun want to avenge?
(a) His brother.
(b) His father.
(c) His son.
(d) His wife.
3. 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.
4. What is the relationship between John Cabanis and the person who returns to Spoon River in The Spooniad?
(a) Brother-sister.
(b) Cousins.
(c) Father-daughter.
(d) Childhood friends.
5. To what age did Lucinda Matlock live?
(a) One hundred and two.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Seventy-three.
(d) Ninety-six.
6. 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 can grow in dark places.
(d) How it knows to be itchy.
7. Who or what did Lydia Humphrey love?
(a) Webster Ford.
(b) Joseph Dixon.
(c) The church.
(d) The United States.
8. Who returns to Spoon River in The Spooniad?
(a) Gerald.
(b) Flossie.
(c) Amanda.
(d) Jefferson.
9. Where did Lucinda Matlock's husband see the activity of human life?
(a) In schools of fish.
(b) In the life of a spider.
(c) In an ant farm.
(d) In a beehive.
10. Of what did Aaron Hatfield speak?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) The peasant boy from Galilee.
(c) Eternal life.
(d) The mother of the Lord.
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. What stands on the lot where James Garber walked to work every day?
(a) The Spoon River Courthouse.
(b) The Spoon River Opera House.
(c) The Spoon River Elementary School.
(d) The Spoon River Library.
13. What did Hiram Scates run for president of?
(a) County Board.
(b) United States of America.
(c) School Board.
(d) State Board.
14. What happened to Henry Tripp when the bank broke?
(a) He lost his savings.
(b) He lost his job.
(c) He no longer had a mortgage.
(d) He lost his farm.
15. What was Ippolit Konovaloff's occupation?
(a) Cattle wrangler.
(b) Blacksmith.
(c) Handyman.
(d) Gunsmith.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did William H. Herndon see in his memory?
2. Who was the laughing stock of Spoon River?
3. Who is condemned by the church?
4. Who believed Life is for feasting upon?
5. Who is sent by the liberal party to intimidate voters?
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