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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom did Godwin James hate?

3. Who died and left his beloved behind, bidding her to be brave?

4. Who returns to Spoon River in The Spooniad?

5. What saved Alfred Moir's soul?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Compare and contrast Zilpha Marsh and Lydia Humphrey.

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

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

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

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

7. How did Felix Schmidt lose what little he had in life?

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

9. What does Lyman King say about Fate?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the importance for Masters to include fools and failures as well as heroes and enlightened souls in "Spoon River Anthology".

Essay Topic 2

What is the tone of "Spoon River Anthology"? How do you know?

Essay Topic 3

Was John Cabanis right in attempting to overthrow the conservative party in The Spooniad? Why?

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