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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. What cities does J.T. claim to visit in Play Six?
(a) San Francisco and Paris, France.
(b) London and Madrid.
(c) Atlanta, Georgia and New York City.
(d) Chicago and St. Louis.

2. When Talbert and his men retreat to the river during their first battle in Play Five, what happens to Talbert?
(a) He is wounded by a Union bullet.
(b) He develops dysentery.
(c) He falls and breaks his ankle.
(d) He is captured by a Union lieutenant.

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

4. In Play Five, how does Randall's father, Richard, punish the boy for running away?
(a) He makes Randall work the fields with the sharecroppers.
(b) He makes Randall tend the family mules.
(c) He withholds Randall's monthly allowance.
(d) He whips Randall's hand and sends him home.

5. What is the Cherokee term for Morning Star?
(a) Knox Sanale.
(b) O si yo.
(c) Didi luga.
(d) Gado adi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the prologue in Play Six, Tall Tales, discuss?

2. In the prologue of Play Six, who stands off to the side while 14-year-old Mary Anne Rowen sits at the creek?

3. In Play One, Masters of the Trade, what does Michael Rowen say happens at Zion?

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

5. When Tommy confronts him in Chapter Six, who does J.T. say he comes to visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lana want to break off her affair with Joshua?

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

3. What character flaw do Patrick Rowen and his father Michael share and what dark act does it lead each of them to commit?

4. 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?

5. Why doesn't Tommy Jackson trust J.T. in Scene One of Play Six, Tall Tales?

6. Discuss how Tommy helps Abe get hired at the mines in Scene Two of Play Seven.

7. How does the mining accident in Scene Nine of Play Seven influence Mary Anne's opinion about the union?

8. What is the significance of Morning Star's failure to tell her son about her visits to Joe Talbert?

9. Who is the old man Jeremiah summons from the woods at the end of Play Four, Ties That Bind, and what does he want?

10. In Play Four, Ties That Bind, why does Patrick Rowen seem to favor his younger son, Zach, over his older son, Zeke?

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