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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the airport August is going to in Act 1?
(a) Paducah.
(b) Ouachita.
(c) Mountain Springs.
(d) Blue Shoals.

2. How long is Jean taking off work?
(a) Six months.
(b) One year.
(c) Eighteen months.
(d) Nine months.

3. What does Dan claim is another name for the Temple Mound People?
(a) The Aztecs.
(b) The Adena.
(c) The Jasker Tribe.
(d) The Early Mississippian Culture.

4. Who discovers the evidence of the village site?
(a) The archeology students.
(b) The archeology team.
(c) August.
(d) Engineers preparing the lake bed.

5. What is Jean called as a child?
(a) Jean.
(b) Jeannie.
(c) Mary Jean.
(d) Jay.

6. In what month does the play begin?
(a) July.
(b) February.
(c) April.
(d) October.

7. Where on the set do the projections appear, according to the stage directions?
(a) On the desk.
(b) On a screen at the front of the stage.
(c) On the back wall.
(d) On a curtain.

8. What does Dan ask August not to reveal to the others in early Act 1?
(a) That Jean is sick.
(b) That he is leaving.
(c) That he has married Jean.
(d) That Jean is pregnant.

9. Who is camping near the house?
(a) A family from the town.
(b) A group of archeology students.
(c) Chad.
(d) A group of hunters.

10. How old is Kirsten?
(a) Eight.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Nine.

11. Which character won a national spelling bee as a kid?
(a) Delia.
(b) Cynthia.
(c) Jean.
(d) August.

12. How does Delia describe the temporary secretary she hired to transcribe her book?
(a) An idiot.
(b) Very neat, sweet, meek.
(c) Haughty and proud.
(d) Demure and prudish.

13. What are the directions that August gives Dianne regarding his recording?
(a) To mail them to the university.
(b) To type them up.
(c) To match them with the corresponding slides.
(d) To listen to them.

14. Which character says, "Jesus, dear God, but it's bleak here."
(a) Delia.
(b) Kirsten.
(c) Chad.
(d) Dan.

15. What does August refer to Cynthia as when her photograph appears on a slide in Act 1?
(a) Ex-relation by marriage.
(b) His daughter.
(c) His wife.
(d) A photographer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jean says to Delia that the Temple Mound People were likely runaways from whom?

2. What do Dan's notes state the two mounds in a village were for?

3. Who comes to comfort Kirsten at the end of Act 1 Part 2?

4. What does August say his father did to Delia?

5. Who is left alone in the dark at the end of Act 1 Part 6?

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