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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What stands on the lot where James Garber walked to work every day?
(a) The Spoon River Library.
(b) The Spoon River Courthouse.
(c) The Spoon River Opera House.
(d) The Spoon River Elementary School.

2. How did Ollie and Fletcher feel about each other?
(a) They respected each other.
(b) They hated each other.
(c) They were deeply in love.
(d) They did their best to have a good relationship.

3. What does Beelzebub explain?
(a) The meaning of life.
(b) Various truths.
(c) The reason for the death sentence.
(d) The hero's mind.

4. Who shot the Marshal?
(a) Jack McGuire.
(b) Deacon Taylor.
(c) Theodore the Poet.
(d) Sam Hookey.

5. Why does The Spooniad end abruptly?
(a) It is a fragment.
(b) Edgar Lee Masters did not know how to end it.
(c) Edgar Lee Masters died before completing it.
(d) Bengal Mike is telling the story.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Amanda Barker's husband kill her?

2. What did people think of Willie Pennington?

3. Under what kind of tree did Conrad Siever work?

4. Whose children did Constance Hately raise?

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

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