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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Zilpha Marsh-Webser Ford.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what age was Nellie Clark's innocence taken?
(a) Twenty-one.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Eight.

2. What did Joseph Dixon tune?
(a) Harps and pianos.
(b) Guitars and pianos.
(c) Flutes.
(d) Violins and cellos.

3. Who was the several-times mayor of Spoon River?
(a) John Horace Burleson.
(b) A. D. Blood.
(c) Sersmith the Dentist.
(d) Hon. Henry Bennett.

4. Who or what did Henry C. Calhoun seek to punish?
(a) The jury who convicted him.
(b) Judge Somers.
(c) Dippold the Optician.
(d) Spoon River.

5. Whom did John M. Church defend?
(a) Bankers.
(b) Insurance companies.
(c) Orphans.
(d) Widows.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Elliot Hawkins look like?

2. Whose work did Thomas Trevelyan read?

3. Who stirred "vibrations" in Spoon River?

4. What did John Horace Burleson win?

5. What did Elijah Browning tell a story about?

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