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

2. Of what did Aaron Hatfield speak?
(a) The mother of the Lord.
(b) Eternal life.
(c) The peasant boy from Galilee.
(d) Forgiveness.

3. What did Alfonzo Churchill study?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Geology.
(c) Astronomy.
(d) Latin.

4. Why does The Spooniad end abruptly?
(a) Bengal Mike is telling the story.
(b) Edgar Lee Masters did not know how to end it.
(c) It is a fragment.
(d) Edgar Lee Masters died before completing it.

5. When did Hamlet Micure have visions?
(a) Under hypnosis.
(b) While drunk.
(c) During a long fever.
(d) While fasting.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose work did Thomas Trevelyan read?

3. What was the name of John Wasson's wife?

4. How long did Isaiah Beethoven discover he had to live?

5. Where did Aaron Hatfield speak?

Short Essay Questions

1. What souls are in the section beginning with Zilpha Marsh and ending with Webster Ford?

2. Why does Jefferson Howard challenge the liberal party in the planning meeting?

3. How is Father Malloy's epitaph different from the others in the "Spoon River Anthology"?

4. Compare and contrast Zilpha Marsh and Lydia Humphrey.

5. Give three examples of enlightened souls in the section beginning with Edmund Pollard and ending with Dippold the Optician.

6. How did Felix Schmidt lose what little he had in life?

7. How was Lucinda Matlock able to deal with the deaths of eight of her twelve children?

8. What is one theme in the section beginning with William H. Herndon and ending with Alfonzo Churchill?

9. Compare and contrast the village atheist and John Ballard.

10. What do many residents seek in the section beginning with William H. Herndon and ending with Alfonzo Churchill?

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