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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 happened to Henry Tripp when the bank broke?
(a) He no longer had a mortgage.
(b) He lost his farm.
(c) He lost his savings.
(d) He lost his job.

2. Who wrote an article on the intelligence of plants?
(a) Abel Melveny.
(b) Dillard Sissman.
(c) Perry Zoll.
(d) Shack Dye.

3. What was the name of Rebecca Wasson's husband?
(a) John.
(b) Paul.
(c) Avery.
(d) Michael.

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

5. Who always had the face of a boy?
(a) Charles Webster.
(b) Father Malloy.
(c) Harlan Sewall.
(d) Ami Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stands against the plan to overthrow the conservative party?

2. Why did Hannah Armstrong contact President Lincoln?

3. Whose work did Thomas Trevelyan read?

4. What did Calvin Campbell wonder about a plant?

5. How did Elizabeth Childers lose a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the alligator rising out of the mud in Arlo Will's epitaph symbolize?

2. Herman Altman and Columbus Cheney introduce the idea of reincarnation to the Anthology. Does this fit in with the Anthology's theme of spiritual evolution? If so, how? If not, why not?

3. What is one theme of the section beginning with Edmund Pollard and ending with Dippold the Optician?

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

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

6. What does Lyman King say about Fate?

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

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

9. Compare and contrast Zilpha Marsh and Lydia Humphrey.

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

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