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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. Who abandons the conservative party in favor of the liberal party?
(a) Nicholas Bindle.
(b) Jefferson Howard.
(c) John Cabanis.
(d) Bengal Mike.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Aaron Hatfield speak?

2. Whom do the people want to see lynched as The Spooniad ends?

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

4. When did Hamlet Micure have visions?

5. What did Calvin Campbell wonder about a plant?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does literature play in the section beginning with Edmund Pollard and ending with Dippold the Optician?

2. Give three examples of enlightened souls in the section beginning with Edmund Pollard and ending with Dippold the Optician.

3. Herman Altman and Columbus Cheney introduce the idea of reincarnation to the Anthology. Does this fit in with the Anthology's theme of spiritual evolution? If so, how? If not, why not?

4. Why does Jefferson Howard challenge the liberal party in the planning meeting?

5. How was Lucinda Matlock able to deal with the deaths of eight of her twelve children?

6. Why are there many references to soldiers and war in the section beginning with Magrady Graham and ending with Mabel Osborne?

7. How is Father Malloy's epitaph different from the others in the "Spoon River Anthology"?

8. Many residents suffered greatly because of bad luck. Give at least one example of such a resident.

9. What significance does Flossie have to John Cabanis's departure from the conservative party?

10. What does Lyman King say about Fate?

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