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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Magrady Graham-Mabel Osbourne.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Franklin Jones need one more year to finish?
(a) His plan to escape Spoon River.
(b) Medical school.
(c) His collection of poetry.
(d) His flying machine.

2. With whom was Rosie Roberts angry?
(a) The military.
(b) A. D. Blood.
(c) Hortense Robbins.
(d) The crooked police.

3. How did Barry Holden kill someone?
(a) With a hatchet.
(b) With his bare hands.
(c) With a shotgun.
(d) With a knife.

4. Who was a vegetarian and free-thinker?
(a) Professor Newcomer.
(b) Alexander Throckmorton.
(c) Mrs. Kessler.
(d) W. Lloyd Garrison Standard.

5. Why was Dr. Siegrfied Iseman thrown in jail?
(a) Selling Elixir of Youth.
(b) Encouraging women not to have children.
(c) Selling hair tonic.
(d) Practicing medicine without a license.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did a resident of Spoon River steal blankets?

2. Who accidentally shot himself in the heart?

3. What did Edith Conant lament?

4. Who was crushed by a falling carriage?

5. Whose name was daily in the papers?

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