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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. Whose work did Thomas Trevelyan read?
(a) Ovid's.
(b) Thomas Aquinas's.
(c) Sophocles'.
(d) Dante's.

2. What did Elijah Browning tell a story about?
(a) Climbing a mountain.
(b) Making it rain.
(c) Crossing a desert.
(d) Swimming the English Channel.

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

4. Whom did Elliot Hawkins look like?
(a) John Hancock.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) John Adams.

5. What did John Horace Burleson win?
(a) The prize essay at school.
(b) A trip to Chicago.
(c) One hundred dollars.
(d) George Reece's horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote an article on the intelligence of plants?

2. With what did Russell Kincaid have a kinship?

3. What did Silas Dement burn down?

4. Who was the several-times mayor of Spoon River?

5. Who was universally derided by the residents of Spoon River?

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