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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. Whom did Harlan Sewall repay?
(a) Mabel Osborne.
(b) Ippolit Konovaloff.
(c) The unknown one.
(d) A British soldier.

2. Whom did Elliot Hawkins look like?
(a) John Adams.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) George Washington.
(d) John Hancock.

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

4. Why did Henry C. Calhoun want to avenge?
(a) His father.
(b) His son.
(c) His wife.
(d) His brother.

5. Why did Hannah Armstrong contact President Lincoln?
(a) About an Army discharge.
(b) About taxes.
(c) To thank him for his work.
(d) To discover his favorite meal.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what was Webster Ford infatuated?

2. What did Joseph Dixon tune?

3. How did Immanuel Ehrenhardt look for the secret of life?

4. Where did Harry Wilmans follow the flag to?

5. What is the relationship between John Cabanis and the person who returns to Spoon River in The Spooniad?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Lyman King say about Fate?

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

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

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

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

7. Compare and contrast Zilpha Marsh and Lydia Humphrey.

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

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

10. Why is Hog-eyed Allen at the courthouse on the day of the election? What happens to him?

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