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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 died the same week as Daisy Fraser?
(a) Jeduthan Hawley.
(b) Peleg Poague.
(c) Granville Calhoun.
(d) Oaks Tutt.

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

3. What did people think of Willie Pennington?
(a) He had no ambition.
(b) He was envious of his brothers.
(c) He sabotaged his brothers.
(d) He was a simpleton.

4. Who ignored Hildrup Tubbs for many years?
(a) E. C. Culbertson.
(b) Granville Calhoun.
(c) Death.
(d) Voltaire Johnson.

5. With what was Webster Ford infatuated?
(a) Delphic Apollo.
(b) Oranges.
(c) God.
(d) Judson Stoddard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Sunday school superintendent?

2. How did a Spoon River resident find God reacted to being cursed?

3. Who stands against the plan to overthrow the conservative party?

4. Who is sent by the liberal party to intimidate voters?

5. Who or what did Henry C. Calhoun seek to punish?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why might it be important to treat your friends and family well, according to Le Roy Goldman?

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

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

4. What does Lyman King say about Fate?

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

6. Give three examples of enlightened souls 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. How was Lucinda Matlock able to deal with the deaths of eight of her twelve children?

9. What do many residents seek in the section beginning with William H. Herndon and ending with Alfonzo Churchill?

10. What is the explanation given about The Spooniad?

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