Spoon River Anthology

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Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters
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1) Each poem is a(n) ______ of a dead citizen.

• a) allegory
• b) epitaph
• c) biography
• d) epigraph
• 
  

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2) The Spoon River anthology is a ______
collection since it reflects the diversity of the
country during the time.

• a) realistic
• b) romantic
• c) depressing
• d) content

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3) The collection is written in ______.

• Iambic tetrameter
• Iambic pentameter
• Green Verse
• Free Verse

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4) The Collection is composed of ___ characters.

• 24
• 212
• 246
• 150

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Sam Hookey

• I RAN away from home with the circus,
• Having fallen in love with Mademoiselle
  Estralada,
• The lion tamer.
• One time, having starved the lions
• For more than a day,
• I entered the cage and began to beat Brutus
• And Leo and Gypsy.
• Whereupon Brutus sprang upon me,
• And killed me. On entering these regions
• I met a shadow who cursed me,
• And said it served me right. . . .
• It was Robespierre!

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5) Mademoiselle Estralada worked as a _____.

• Swinger
• Monkey Trainer
• Acrobat
• Lion Tamer

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6) The name Brutus is a reference to _____.

• Romeo and Juliet
• Hamlet
• Coriolanus
• Julius Caesar

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7) The name Leo is or could be a reference to
______.

• Leonidas from Sparta
• Leo from the Zodiac symbols
• Emersons novel
• Steinbecks novel

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8) The name Robespierre is a reference to
_________.

• a town in China
• a French revolutionist
• a Greek god
• A type of gun

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

• MY father who owned the wagon-shop
• And grew rich shoeing horses
• Sent me to the University of Montreal.
• I learned nothing and returned home,
• Roaming the fields with Bert Kessler,
• Hunting quail and snipe.
• At Thompson's Lake the trigger of my gun
• Caught in the side of the boat
• And a great hole was shot through my heart.
• Over me a fond father erected this marble shaft,
• On which stands the figure of a woman
• Carved by an Italian artist.
• They say the ashes of my namesake
• Were scattered near the pyramid of Caius Cestius
  
• Somewhere near Rome.

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9) The narrators father worked in a ____.

• Supermarket
• Farm
• Garage
• Wagon Shop

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10) The narrator studied at ______.

• Harvard Law
• Yale
• Montreal
• Manhattan Ville

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11) The narrator returned from college because
____.

• he finished his degree
• got expelled
• Couldn't afford it
• Didn't learn nothing

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12) The narrator died in _______.

• the city
• his house
• the lake
• the beach

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13) _____ roamed the fields with the narrator.

• Kurt Scott
• Josh Thomas
• Bert Kessler
• Tom Scoter

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14) The bullet penetrated through _______.

• his heart
• his lung
• his kidney
• his head

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15) The name Caius Cestius is a reference to the
_____.

• Greek God
• Roman Praetor
• Egyptian Praetor
• Spanish Praetor

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