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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Lucinda Matlock's husband see the activity of human life?
(a) In a beehive.
(b) In an ant farm.
(c) In schools of fish.
(d) In the life of a spider.

2. What was the name of John Wasson's wife?
(a) Mary Anne.
(b) Emily.
(c) Rebecca.
(d) Ruth.

3. Who enlarged ambrotypes of pioneers?
(a) Davis Matlock.
(b) Rutherford McDowell.
(c) William H. Herndon.
(d) Samuel Gardner.

4. Where did Harry Wilmans follow the flag to?
(a) Beijing.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Manila.
(d) Africa.

5. What did Joseph Dixon tune?
(a) Violins and cellos.
(b) Harps and pianos.
(c) Guitars and pianos.
(d) Flutes.

6. What love of William Jones's made him beloved?
(a) God.
(b) Conversation.
(c) Nature.
(d) Books.

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

8. How did a Spoon River resident find God reacted to being cursed?
(a) God caused a flood.
(b) God killed him.
(c) God killed his wife.
(d) God paid no attention.

9. Whom did Godwin James hate?
(a) Caroline Branson.
(b) Harry Wilmans.
(c) Lyman King.
(d) John Wasson.

10. Who believed a close friend or relative must speak to God on your behalf if you die having always rejected Him?
(a) James Garber.
(b) Aaron Hatfield.
(c) Joseph Dixon.
(d) Le Roy Goldman.

11. 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.

12. Who was the laughing stock of Spoon River?
(a) Tennessee Claflin Slope.
(b) Immanuel Ehrenhardt.
(c) Scholfield Hurley.
(d) J. Milton Miles.

13. To what age did Lucinda Matlock live?
(a) One hundred and two.
(b) Ninety-six.
(c) Seventy-three.
(d) Eighty.

14. What did Calvin Campbell wonder about a plant?
(a) How it finds poison in the soil.
(b) How it knows to be itchy.
(c) How it knows when to bloom.
(d) How it can grow in dark places.

15. How did Elizabeth Childers lose a child?
(a) During pregnancy.
(b) In a blizzard.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Giving birth to it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Harlan Sewall repay?

2. What did Seth Compton build?

3. What did Elijah Browning tell a story about?

4. Who died and left his beloved behind, bidding her to be brave?

5. Who killed Tom Merritt?

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