Spoon River Anthology Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Spoon River Anthology Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did Hod Putt die?
(a) He was robbed and shot.
(b) He was hanged.
(c) He killed himself.
(d) He died of consumption.

4. Whose sermons were burned as waste paper?
(a) Jonas Keene.
(b) Lemuel Wiley.
(c) Abner Peet.
(d) Judge Somers.

5. Whom is Hod Putt buried next to?
(a) Robert Fulton Tanner.
(b) Amanda Barker.
(c) Old Bill Piersol.
(d) Ollie McGee.

6. For what was Roy Butler framed?
(a) Robbery.
(b) Extortion.
(c) Murder.
(d) Rape.

7. Who was born blind?
(a) Sarah Brown.
(b) Willard Fluke.
(c) Johnnie Sayre.
(d) Lois Spears.

8. Where did George Trimble talk?
(a) The Hill.
(b) Town square.
(c) The courthouse steps.
(d) At the school house.

9. Into what did Mickey M'Grew fall?
(a) The water tower.
(b) The mine.
(c) Roy Butler's silo.
(d) A well.

10. How does Cassius Hueffer's headstone describe him?
(a) Loving.
(b) Gentle.
(c) A warrior.
(d) Friendly.

11. Who tried to memorize the Encyclopedia Britannica?
(a) Frank Drummer.
(b) Butch Weldy.
(c) Ruben Pantier.
(d) Daisy Fraser.

12. Where did Ida Chickens attend lectures?
(a) Oxford.
(b) The University of Illinois.
(c) The Spoon River Public Library.
(d) Chautauqua.

13. Who accidentally shot himself in the heart?
(a) Nicholas Bindle.
(b) Doc Hill.
(c) Dorcas Gustine.
(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

14. Who was destroyed by his brother's ambition?
(a) Jim Brown.
(b) Thomas Ross, Jr.
(c) Amos Sibley.
(d) Washington McNeely.

15. Where did Doc Hill pour out his love?
(a) The town.
(b) His wife.
(c) His son.
(d) His career.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stole blankets?

2. Whom did the Rev. Lemuel Wiley save from divorce?

3. What party did John Cabanis abandon?

4. How did Harold Arnett die?

5. What hit Johnnie Sayre?

(see the answer keys)

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