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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play Nine, The War on Poverty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Jed returns home at the end of Play Five, what do he and his father and friends do?
(a) Switch sides and fight for the Yankees.
(b) Have a celebratory dinner.
(c) Attack the Talbert home, burning and killing.
(d) Go into hiding from Sherman's Yankee army.

2. Which of the following is not a point that Joshua raises with James Talbert when discussing the union contract with the mining company in Play Eight?
(a) The opening of a hospital for miners that accepts blacks.
(b) The wages paid to miners.
(c) The number of layoffs, the majority of which are blacks.
(d) The union backing off of safety concerns.

3. What does Earl Tod do before he offers Michael Rowen food and water?
(a) He offers Rowen whiskey.
(b) He introduces Rowen to Sam.
(c) He demands money for his hospitality.
(d) He knocks Rowen down and searches him for weapons.

4. What does J.T. talk Jed Rowen into doing in Play Six?
(a) Getting drunk.
(b) Buying more land.
(c) Going into business with him.
(d) Selling the mineral rights to the Rowen land.

5. Which Talberts survive the attack on their home in Play Five?
(a) The two Talbert women.
(b) Young Randall and his mother.
(c) Richard Talbert and his mother.
(d) Young Randall and his grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Play Eight, what does Joshua want to tell the press about the explosion?

2. Who does Joshua dream of at the beginning of Play Nine?

3. What is Michael Rowen's country of origin?

4. In what year does Play Six, Tall Tales, take place?

5. What are Abe and Cassius supposed to do at the Treaty Oak at the end of Play Seven?

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