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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3 (through page 74).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What forces Thomas to go north to prevent the Union government from seizing everything?
(a) His ill wife.
(b) His uncle's death.
(c) His dying sister.
(d) His mother's death.

2. What has happened to Oscar?
(a) His meeting is running late.
(b) He has been run over by a car.
(c) He needed a root canal.
(d) He had to work late at work.

3. How does Mother reply when Thomas asks what she wants?
(a) To move up north.
(b) To move onto a nice plantation.
(c) Only to lay up treasures in heaven.
(d) Only to stay with her son.

4. What does Thomas' mother refuse to leave?
(a) The parlor.
(b) Her room.
(c) The broken-down farmhouse.
(d) The farm.

5. About what does Thomas still dream about first stepping onto Quantness?
(a) How happy he was.
(b) How vast the property was.
(c) His surprise at seeing this beautiful plantation.
(d) He was moved by hunger to shoot a quail that will not die.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oscar fear about his house?

2. Why is Christina worried about Szyrk?

3. Why can Lily not marry Oscar yet?

4. In the play's prologue, Mother asks about what, regarding Thomas?

5. What does Lily declare about Oscar's play so far?

(see the answer key)

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