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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 Seth Compton build?
(a) A family.
(b) The Spoon River Library.
(c) An outhouse.
(d) The first restaurant in Spoon River.

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

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

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

5. Who dreamed of righting the wrongs of the world?
(a) Seth Compton.
(b) Elliot Hawkins.
(c) Abel Melveny.
(d) Oaks Tutt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Lucinda Matlock's husband see the activity of human life?

2. What stands on the lot where James Garber walked to work every day?

3. How did Elizabeth Childers lose a child?

4. Who killed Tom Merritt?

5. With what was Webster Ford infatuated?

Short Essay Questions

1. What souls are in the section beginning with Zilpha Marsh and ending with Webster Ford?

2. Compare and contrast Zilpha Marsh and Lydia Humphrey.

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

4. Who killed Tom Merritt? What happened to Mrs. Merritt and her lover after Tom's murder?

5. How is the epitaph about the many soldiers different from the other epitaphs in the "Spoon River Anthology"?

6. Compare and contrast E. C. Culbertson and Hildrup Tubbs.

7. Compare and contrast the village atheist and John Ballard.

8. How does William Goode justify his aimless wandering?

9. What does Lyman King say about Fate?

10. What is the explanation given about The Spooniad?

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