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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom did Doris Williams marry?
(a) A pastor.
(b) A cheat.
(c) No one.
(d) A drunk.

2. Whose children did Constance Hately raise?
(a) Her neighbor's.
(b) Her cousin's.
(c) Her mother's.
(d) Her sister's.

3. Who drove Georgina Sand Miner from home?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her mother-in-law.
(c) Her stepmother.
(d) Her mother.

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

5. How did Jacob Goodpasture lose his son?
(a) Building a railway.
(b) A bar fight.
(c) The war.
(d) Pneumonia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was crushed by a falling carriage?

2. What is the name of Ollie McGee's husband?

3. What did Franklin Jones need one more year to finish?

4. For what was Roy Butler framed?

5. To what animal does Robert Fulton Tanner compare man?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the types of people included in the section beginning with Fiddler Jones and ending with Mrs. George Reece? Give one example of each.

2. How is the Circuit Judge's sense of justice skewed?

3. Why can Nicholas Bindle be considered foolish? Why can he be considered heroic?

4. How is Emily Sparks different from the other residents at the beginning of the "Spoon River Anthology"? How does she fit in with the other residents?

5. Explain the relationship between Harmon Whitney and the other residents of Spoon River. Why did this relationship exist?

6. Explain how Fiddler Jones was able to die without a single regret.

7. What category of soul does Albert Schirding fit into? What does Jonas Keene think of him?

8. What is inspiring about Lois Spears?

9. What tone does The Hill set at the beginning of "Spoon River Anthology"? How do you know?

10. Did Clarence Fawcett deserve to be punished for stealing blankets to pay his daughter's doctor bill? Why?

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