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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leonardo's wife ask that he buy for their baby?
(a) A dress.
(b) Food.
(c) A cap with ribbons.
(d) A cradle.

2. Finish the line from the lullaby: "With a branch of dreams, and a dream of ____".
(a) Love.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Branches.
(d) Water.

3. What reason does the son give his mother to explain why there are no trees on his bride's land?
(a) They do not know how to plant trees.
(b) There is no man to plant trees.
(c) They don't want trees.
(d) It's dry.

4. Who is described as "fresh as a dahlia"?
(a) The bride.
(b) Leonardo's wife.
(c) Leonardo.
(d) Leonardo's baby.

5. Who is the mother talking about when she says, "He'd have found water. In our three years he planted ten cherry trees"?
(a) Her dead husband.
(b) The bride's father.
(c) Her dead son.
(d) Her son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the son going when he asks his mother for a knife?

2. What does the bride's father claim wouldn't grow on his land at one time, but now does?

3. What does the mother start to do to her son but stops short in Act 1, Scene 1?

4. What does the girl tell Leonardo's wife the son and his mother bought at the store?

5. Who says, "I've always done a man's work"?

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