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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 zigzagged aimlessly?
(a) William Jones.
(b) Scholfield Hurley.
(c) J. Milton Miles.
(d) William Goode.
2. Whose work did Thomas Trevelyan read?
(a) Thomas Aquinas's.
(b) Dante's.
(c) Sophocles'.
(d) Ovid's.
3. Who is killed in the fight after all the votes have been cast?
(a) Flossie.
(b) Bengal Mike.
(c) John Cabanis.
(d) Hog-eyed Allen.
4. Whom did Godwin James hate?
(a) Harry Wilmans.
(b) John Wasson.
(c) Lyman King.
(d) Caroline Branson.
5. How did Immanuel Ehrenhardt look for the secret of life?
(a) Attending religion courses.
(b) Traveling the world.
(c) Praying for six hours each day.
(d) Reading widely.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is condemned by the church?
2. Where did Archibald Higbie move to?
3. Where did Gustav Richter work long days?
4. How did a Spoon River resident find God reacted to being cursed?
5. How did Elizabeth Childers lose a child?
Short Essay Questions
1. Many residents suffered greatly because of bad luck. Give at least one example of such a resident.
2. Who killed Tom Merritt? What happened to Mrs. Merritt and her lover after Tom's murder?
3. What is the explanation given about The Spooniad?
4. What souls are in the section beginning with Zilpha Marsh and ending with Webster Ford?
5. How was Lucinda Matlock able to deal with the deaths of eight of her twelve children?
6. What role does literature play in the section beginning with Edmund Pollard and ending with Dippold the Optician?
7. What is one theme of the section beginning with Edmund Pollard and ending with Dippold the Optician?
8. Why are there many references to soldiers and war in the section beginning with Magrady Graham and ending with Mabel Osborne?
9. 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?
10. Compare and contrast the village atheist and John Ballard.
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