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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Widow McFarlane do for the village?
(a) Bake pies.
(b) Watch children.
(c) Clean houses.
(d) Weave carpets.

2. Whom did Doris Williams marry?
(a) A cheat.
(b) A drunk.
(c) No one.
(d) A pastor.

3. Whom did Searcy Foote murder?
(a) Grandmother Persephone.
(b) Aunt Persis.
(c) Cousin Polly.
(d) Uncle Percy.

4. Where did George Trimble talk?
(a) At the school house.
(b) The courthouse steps.
(c) Town square.
(d) The Hill.

5. Where did Daniel M'Cumber go?
(a) The ocean.
(b) The city.
(c) Europe.
(d) No one knows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What celebrated public figure is buried in an unmarked grave?

2. With how many regrets did Fiddler Jones die?

3. By whom was Dora Williams abandoned?

4. How tall was Judge Selah Lively?

5. Who drove Georgina Sand Miner from home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Emily Sparks different from the other residents at the beginning of the "Spoon River Anthology"? How does she fit in with the other residents?

2. What tone does The Hill set at the beginning of "Spoon River Anthology"? How do you know?

3. Is there a hero in the section beginning with Rev. Lemuel Wiley and ending with Anthony Findlay? If so, who and why? If not, why not?

4. Explain the relationship between Mrs. George Reece and Alexander Pope.

5. Explain the relationship between Harmon Whitney and the other residents of Spoon River. Why did this relationship exist?

6. What category of soul does Albert Schirding fit into? What does Jonas Keene think of him?

7. What is inspiring about Lois Spears?

8. What is a common theme in the residents of the section beginning with John Cabanis and ending with Searcy Foote? Give an example.

9. Explain how Fiddler Jones was able to die without a single regret.

10. Did Searcy Foote feel justified in killing his aunt with chloroform? Why?

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