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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Dodge betray his family?
(a) By growing vetables for Tilden to pick.
(b) By sinking into alcoholism.
(c) By not leaving the past alone.
(d) By giving the farm to Bradley.

2. What brings about the climax of the story?
(a) Bradley showing up.
(b) Halie and Father Dewis having an affair.
(c) Shelly leaving.
(d) Tilden digging up the body of the baby.

3. Who did Tilden talk to about his lost little baby?
(a) Shelly.
(b) Father Dewis.
(c) Halie.
(d) Bradley.

4. What is the dysfunctional theme of this play?
(a) The incest between a mother and her son.
(b) A priest and Shelly.
(c) A father and his daughter.
(d) A brother and a sister.

5. What will the future most likely hold for this family?
(a) Strength through restoration.
(b) Peace.
(c) Bradly will finaly be right in his mind again.
(d) Chaos.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long had Vince been gone?

2. Who did Halie say she and Father Dewis was planning a monument for?

3. Who left the farm with no intentions of coming back?

4. Why does Sam Shephard write about this type of family?

5. How does Vince deal with their rejection?

(see the answer key)

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