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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 is sent by the liberal party to intimidate voters?
(a) A. D. Blood.
(b) Hog-eyed Allen.
(c) Bengal Mike.
(d) Jefferson Howard.

2. What saved Alfred Moir's soul?
(a) Love.
(b) A book.
(c) A prayer.
(d) A sunrise.

3. Why does The Spooniad end abruptly?
(a) Edgar Lee Masters died before completing it.
(b) Edgar Lee Masters did not know how to end it.
(c) Bengal Mike is telling the story.
(d) It is a fragment.

4. Who was universally derided by the residents of Spoon River?
(a) Arlo Will.
(b) Zilpha Marsh.
(c) Elijah Browning.
(d) Lydia Humphrey.

5. What was the name of Lucinda Matlock's husband?
(a) Henry.
(b) Milton.
(c) William.
(d) Davis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Rebecca Wasson's husband?

2. When did Hamlet Micure have visions?

3. Who is condemned by the church?

4. What did Richard Bone do?

5. Who died the same week as Daisy Fraser?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Lyman King say about Fate?

5. Compare and contrast Zilpha Marsh and Lydia Humphrey.

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

7. What is the explanation given about The Spooniad?

8. What is one theme of the section beginning with Edmund Pollard and ending with Dippold the Optician?

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

10. 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?

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