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

2. What did Dippold the Optician see eyeglass lenses as a metaphor for?
(a) Spiritual understanding.
(b) Relationships between spouses.
(c) Truth.
(d) Faith.

3. What was the name of John Wasson's wife?
(a) Mary Anne.
(b) Emily.
(c) Rebecca.
(d) Ruth.

4. What did Felix Schmidt lose to Christian Dallman?
(a) His team of horses.
(b) His life savings.
(c) His five-acre plot.
(d) His wife.

5. What did Alfonzo Churchill find in his studies?
(a) Spiritual enlightenment.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Truth.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Harlan Sewall repay someone?

2. Who abandons the conservative party in favor of the liberal party?

3. Who returns to Spoon River in The Spooniad?

4. To what age did Lucinda Matlock live?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the explanation given about The Spooniad?

2. How does William Goode justify his aimless wandering?

3. How is the epitaph about the many soldiers different from the other epitaphs in the "Spoon River Anthology"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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