3. What did Seth Compton build?
(a) The first restaurant in Spoon River.
(b) The Spoon River Library.
(c) An outhouse.
(d) A family.

4. Why did Hannah Armstrong contact President Lincoln?
(a) To discover his favorite meal.
(b) To thank him for his work.
(c) About an Army discharge.
(d) About taxes.

5. Who was universally derided by the residents of Spoon River?
(a) Lydia Humphrey.
(b) Arlo Will.
(c) Elijah Browning.
(d) Zilpha Marsh.

6. What plant did Calvin Campbell wonder about?
(a) Roses.
(b) Poison oak.
(c) Poison ivy.
(d) Moss.

7. Who zigzagged aimlessly?
(a) Scholfield Hurley.
(b) J. Milton Miles.
(c) William Goode.
(d) William Jones.

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

9. What did people think of Willie Pennington?
(a) He was a simpleton.
(b) He was envious of his brothers.
(c) He had no ambition.
(d) He sabotaged his brothers.

10. Who believed Life is for feasting upon?
(a) Edmund Pollard.
(b) Daisy Fraser.
(c) Jeduthan Hawley.
(d) Thomas Trevelyan.

11. In what did Mabel Osborne see her life?
(a) A drooping geranium.
(b) Gray dish water.
(c) Unfolded laundry.
(d) A discarded banana peel.

12. Who cursed God?
(a) Willie Pennington.
(b) The Village Atheist.
(c) Julian Scott.
(d) John Ballard.

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

14. What did William H. Herndon see in his memory?
(a) All that he wished he could be.
(b) Figures of the past.
(c) The future.
(d) His regrets.

15. Who killed Tom Merritt?
(a) His wife.
(b) His lover's husband.
(c) His wife's lover.
(d) His lover.