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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Scene Five of The Courtship of Morning Star, what one thought does Morning Star think she and her infant son share?
(a) Love of Rowen.
(b) A desire to run away from Rowen.
(c) Death to Rowen.
(d) A desire to return to the Cherokee.

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

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

4. What does the Indian woman try to hit Michael Rowen with in Scene Two of The Courtship of Morning Star?
(a) A rifle.
(b) A broom.
(c) A log.
(d) A coffee pot.

5. What happens to Morning Star's leg in Scene Five of The Courtship of Morning Star?
(a) It develops a red rash.
(b) A snake bites it.
(c) Rowen cuts her tendon so she can't run away.
(d) Morning Star breaks it during a fall down some stairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Patrick Rowen tells his father he wants to marry Rebecca Talbert, how does Michael Rowen react?

2. What arrangement does Jeremiah make with Patrick in Play Four for payment of Patrick's debts?

3. What happens to Star at the end of Play Three, The Homecoming?

4. What is Mary Anne's relationship with Tommy Jackson in Play Six?

5. What is the name of the tree under which Mary Anne's great-great-grandfather, Michael Rowen, buys his land from the Indians?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Jed Rowen's dream at the beginning of Play Five, God's Great Supper.

2. Why are Mary Anne and Tommy willing to take Abe Steinman in as a boarder, even though he is a stranger and involved with the union?

3. What does J.T. talk Jed Rowen into selling in Scene Two of Play Six and does Jed fully understand what he is selling?

4. Why doesn't Joshua want the miners to walk out of the unsafe Blue Star Mine in Play Eight?

5. What is the significance of a wolf howl occurring both at the beginning of The Kentucky Cycle in Play One and at the end of the Kentucky Cycle in Play Nine?

6. Mary Anne Rowen tells Joshua at the end of Play Seven that the union is now his family. In what ways is the coal miners' union like a family to the miners?

7. How does Jed's dream change at the end of Play Five, God's Great Supper, from what it is at the beginning of the play?

8. Explain the significance of the title of Play Six, Tall Tales.

9. What deal does Tommy make with Andrew in Scene Eight of Play Seven and why does he make it?

10. What is Jeremiah's motivation for wanting control of Patrick Rowen's land?

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