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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first thing noticed about Halie?
(a) She is in the garden club.
(b) She loves vegetables.
(c) She constructs grave stones.
(d) She tries to pretend that her marriage and family are strong.

2. What did Sam Shepherd chose a farm as the setting of this play?
(a) He was sure Dodge would rallie in the end.
(b) It was a beautiful vision of this family's fruitful garden.
(c) He loves to watch vegetables grow.
(d) it was a contrast between fertile farming and the deteriation of this family.

3. What position did Dodge hold in the family?
(a) Father Drewis' partner
(b) Father and husband
(c) Son and friend
(d) Halie's lover

4. Who cut off Dodge's hair?
(a) Bradley.
(b) Halie.
(c) Father Drewis.
(d) Tilden.

5. What character was on stage during Act one?
(a) Tilden.
(b) Dodge.
(c) Father Drewis.
(d) Bradley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has a wooden leg?

2. How long has it been since the garden has been worked, according to Dodge?

3. When did Halie say she knew Ansel would be a dead man?

4. Who is described as a drunken, ill, argumentative old man?

5. What did Halie say she and Father Dewis were doing all night when they came home drunk?

(see the answer key)

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