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

2. Where did Ippolit Konovaloff work?
(a) Omaha.
(b) Springfield.
(c) Spoon River.
(d) Odessa.

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

4. Where did Archibald Higbie move to?
(a) Rome.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Berlin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Elizabeth Childers lose a child?

2. What did Calvin Campbell wonder about a plant?

3. What was Ippolit Konovaloff's occupation?

4. Where did Gustav Richter work long days?

5. Where did Aaron Hatfield speak?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the epitaph about the many soldiers different from the other epitaphs in the "Spoon River Anthology"?

2. What role does literature play in the section beginning with Edmund Pollard and ending with Dippold the Optician?

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

4. What is the explanation given about The Spooniad?

5. Who killed Tom Merritt? What happened to Mrs. Merritt and her lover after Tom's murder?

6. Why is Hog-eyed Allen at the courthouse on the day of the election? What happens to him?

7. Compare and contrast Zilpha Marsh and Lydia Humphrey.

8. What does Lyman King say about Fate?

9. Why are there many references to soldiers and war in the section beginning with Magrady Graham and ending with Mabel Osborne?

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

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