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| Author of Spoon River Anthology | Edgar Lee Masters |
| Small towns in Illinois on which the book is based. | Lewistown and Petersburg |
| The real cemetery "The Hill" represents. | Oak Hill Cemetery |
| How the villagers of Lewistown referred to the author. | "That Scoundrel Masters" |
| Author's inspiration for the stories of the deceased. | Stories and gossip from Lewistown and Petersburg. |
| The year the book was banned in Lewistown, Illinois. | 1915 |
| Pennames used when Master's EPITAPH Poems were first published. | Webster Ford, Dexter Wallace |
| Literary magazine that published the poems as a series in 1914. | Reedy's Mirror |
| Hobby of Masters while he was a lawyer | Writing poems and plays |
| The year Masters left his law practice | 1920 |
| Masters moved here when he left his law practice. | New York |
| Edgar Lee Masters BIRTHPLACE, YEAR | Garnett, Kansas 1869 |
| When Edgar Lee Masters died. | 1950 |
| The year the book ban was lifted | 1974 |
| The year Master's poems were published as a series in a magazine. | 1914 |
| Number of dramatic monologues (epitaphs) in the book. | 244 |
| Villagers in Lewistown obtained these, secretly. | Copies of the book |
| How people of Lewistown treat the book today. | Celebrations, exhibitions, theatrical performances, tours, and readings all over Illinois. |
| The librarian that voted to ban the book when it was published. | Emma Dexter Masters, mother of the author |
| In 1880, Master's family moved here, while he was in high school. | Lewistown, Illinois |
| Master's lived in this town as a small child through part of high school. | Petersburg, Illinois |
| Masters passed the bar in 1891 without this. | A college education |
| Epitaph based on Master's pioneering grandmother. | Lucinda Matlock |
| Published works written by Edgar Lee Masters | (over 50) Poetry, plays, biographies, novels, and essays |
| Master's first book, published in 1898 | "A Book of Verses" |
| Point of view used in the epitaph poems | first person |
| Speaker of the epitaph poems | the deceased person |
| Information revealed by some of the speakers | love, betrayal, hidden truth, regrets, social injustice |
| Purpose of "The Hill" | First part; the PROLOGUE |
| Purpose of "The Spooniad" | Recaps and elaborates on the action of the earlier poems |
| Two poems in which the narrator is not one of the Spoon River dead. | "The Hill" and "The Spooniad" |
| Ann Rutledge | First love of Abraham Lincoln; one of the dead. |
| Epitaph poems were mainly based on these. | Real People |
| Why did Lewistown vote to BANN the book? | Secrets and private lives were revealed. |
| Names of the DEAD | Mostly |
| William H. Herndon, Ann Rutledge | Names of REAL PEOPLE |
| REAL NAME:Henry Phelps | EPITAPH NAME: Henry Phipps |
| REAL NAME: Henry Wilmans | EPITAPH NAME: Harry Wilmans |
| Masters used a penname for this reason. | Fear of damaging his law practice |
| Reedy's Mirror Editor, William Reedy | Revealed Masters' identity |
