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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. On whom does The Spooniad focus?
(a) Jefferson Howard.
(b) Nicholas Bindle.
(c) John Cabanis.
(d) Hog-eyed Allen.

2. Where did Lucinda Matlock's husband see the activity of human life?
(a) In an ant farm.
(b) In a beehive.
(c) In schools of fish.
(d) In the life of a spider.

3. Who believed a close friend or relative must speak to God on your behalf if you die having always rejected Him?
(a) Aaron Hatfield.
(b) James Garber.
(c) Le Roy Goldman.
(d) Joseph Dixon.

4. Who wrote an article on the intelligence of plants?
(a) Perry Zoll.
(b) Abel Melveny.
(c) Shack Dye.
(d) Dillard Sissman.

5. When did Hamlet Micure have visions?
(a) While drunk.
(b) Under hypnosis.
(c) While fasting.
(d) During a long fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Lucinda Matlock's husband?

2. What did Dippold the Optician see eyeglass lenses as a metaphor for?

3. Where did Ippolit Konovaloff work?

4. Whom did Harlan Sewall repay?

5. Who cursed God?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does William Goode justify his aimless wandering?

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

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

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

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

6. How did Felix Schmidt lose what little he had in life?

7. What does the alligator rising out of the mud in Arlo Will's epitaph symbolize?

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

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

10. Compare and contrast Zilpha Marsh and Lydia Humphrey.

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