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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What was Ippolit Konovaloff's occupation?
(a) Handyman.
(b) Gunsmith.
(c) Cattle wrangler.
(d) Blacksmith.

4. Who is condemned by the church?
(a) John Cabanis.
(b) A transient who was passing through.
(c) Flossie.
(d) Hog-eyed Allen.

5. What was the name of Lucinda Matlock's husband?
(a) William.
(b) Davis.
(c) Milton.
(d) Henry.

6. What saved Alfred Moir's soul?
(a) A book.
(b) A sunrise.
(c) A prayer.
(d) Love.

7. Whose work did Thomas Trevelyan read?
(a) Sophocles'.
(b) Dante's.
(c) Thomas Aquinas's.
(d) Ovid's.

8. Who is sent by the conservative party to intimidate voters?
(a) A. D. Blood.
(b) Jefferson Howard.
(c) Bengal Mike.
(d) Hog-eyed Allen.

9. What did Jennie M'Grew have?
(a) An incredible ear for music.
(b) Wisdom beyond her years.
(c) Second sight.
(d) The faith of a child.

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

11. What did Alfonzo Churchill find in his studies?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Spiritual enlightenment.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Truth.

12. What did Silas Dement burn down?
(a) Spoon River School.
(b) Spoon River Church.
(c) Jonathon Houghton's barn.
(d) Spoon River Courthouse.

13. Who returns to Spoon River in The Spooniad?
(a) Amanda.
(b) Flossie.
(c) Jefferson.
(d) Gerald.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did a Spoon River resident find God reacted to being cursed?

2. How did Immanuel Ehrenhardt look for the secret of life?

3. What does the person condemned by the church do in retaliation?

4. When did Hamlet Micure have visions?

5. Why did Henry C. Calhoun want to avenge?

(see the answer keys)

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