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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what does the narrator of the prologue in Play Six no longer believe ?
(a) True love.
(b) God.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Stories.

2. Why does Richard want Jed to join his troops?
(a) Jed is a big man who can fight well.
(b) It keeps Jed away from the Talbert women.
(c) Jed's a good shot and good with horses.
(d) Jed knows the countryside in which they are fighting.

3. Who does Jed shoot with Richard Talbert's pistol in Play Five?
(a) Ezekiel.
(b) Talbert.
(c) A Union soldier.
(d) A slave.

4. In Play Five, which Talberts does Ezekiel tell Jed they kill?
(a) The women.
(b) All of them.
(c) The men.
(d) Richard and Randall.

5. What deal does Michael Rowen make with the Cherokee warriors Dragging Canoe and Taskwan in Play One, Masters of the Trade?
(a) A trade of whiskey for fresh fish and game.
(b) A trade of beads for horses.
(c) A trade of whiskey for women.
(d) A trade of powder, shot and blankets for fur pelts.

6. In Play Four, what does Patrick Rowen ask Jessie to do with the circuit court's mules, if any shooting occurs during the court's visit?
(a) Shoot the mules.
(b) Make the mules hard to find.
(c) Drown the mules.
(d) Feed the mules.

7. Who makes up what Jed calls Talbert's army in Play Five, God's Great Supper?
(a) Jed and some Irish immigrants.
(b) Twenty white men from Talbert's county.
(c) Talbert's wife and daughters.
(d) Jed, Talbert's house slave, and a handful of sharecroppers.

8. Who does Michael Rowen bring back from Louisville with him in Play Three, The Homecoming?
(a) A British soldier.
(b) A black female slave.
(c) His Irish mother.
(d) A doctor.

9. Who does Michael Rowen order to bathe him when he returns home from Louisville in Play Three, The Homecoming?
(a) A neighbor woman.
(b) His doctor.
(c) The black female slave.
(d) His wife, Star.

10. How long after the first play does the second play, The Courtship of Morning Star, take place?
(a) One year.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Twenty-five years.
(d) One hundred years.

11. What happens to Joe Talbert, Star's lover, at the end of Play Three, The Homecoming?
(a) Patrick shoots him to avoid hanging or going to jail.
(b) He runs off with Star.
(c) He becomes wealthy.
(d) He gets typhoid fever.

12. What do Rebecca Talbert and Patrick Rowen want to do?
(a) Start a business.
(b) Build a house.
(c) Get married.
(d) Learn to speak Cherokee.

13. What secret does Jeremiah reveal at the end of Play Four, Ties That Bind?
(a) He is building a new bank to replace the failed one.
(b) He is a Rowen.
(c) He is Joe Talbert's son getting revenge for his pa's murder.
(d) He is Patrick's half brother.

14. According to J.T. at the beginning of Play Six, who sometimes takes the shape of a channel catfish?
(a) The devil.
(b) A water nymph.
(c) A Cherokee Indian spirit.
(d) The ghost of Joe Talbert.

15. In Play Two, The Courtship of Morning Star, what does Rowen plan to do if Morning Star has a girl instead of a boy when she delivers the baby she is expecting?
(a) Celebrate the girl's birth with a big party.
(b) Send the child to live with the Indians.
(c) Sell the child as an indentured servant.
(d) Leave the baby girl on a mountain to die.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Play Four, Ties That Bind, take place?

2. In what year is Play One, Masters of the Trade, set?

3. How old are Rebecca Talbert and Patrick Rowen in Play Three, The Homecoming?

4. In Play Two, The Courtship of Morning Star, what does Michael Rowen want now that he is prosperous?

5. In Scene Four of The Courtship of Morning Star, how does Morning star respond when Michael Rowen pulls her into his lap and begins kissing her?

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