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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event brought the family secret out?
(a) Shelly's kindness.
(b) Bradley quit cutting Dodge's hai.r
(c) Tilden and Vince's vist.
(d) Father Dewis broke up with Halie.

2. When Vince returns what does he do?
(a) Asks Shelly to help him care for Halie.
(b) He asks Shelly to marry him and help him with the farm.
(c) Asks Tilden to explain the mess he finds the family in.
(d) He is drunk and throws whiskey bottles at the porch wall.

3. Where does Halie go after Dodge confronts her?
(a) Upstairs.
(b) Outside.
(c) Leaves the family.
(d) To the kitchen.

4. What was the primary conflict in this story?
(a) Bradley and Dodge.
(b) Tilden and Halie.
(c) Halie and Dodge.
(d) Bradley and Dodge.

5. How does Shelly to treat Dodge?
(a) Like a broken child.
(b) Kind.
(c) Like her father.
(d) Like Vince had asked her to.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shelly tries to get Vince to leave even though she feels for who?

2. Who did the family fear would be angry about a disorderly house?

3. What did Tilden say about Vince?

4. What part of this play reflects Sam Shephard's own life?

5. What brings about the climax of the story?

(see the answer key)

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