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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the family hedge around?
(a) A dark family secret.
(b) Father Dewis is really Halie's husband.
(c) Bradley has a baby.
(d) Ansel has a son.

2. When Tilden left corn husks on the floor, who did Halie say would be upset if they found them on the floor?
(a) Tilden.
(b) Bradley.
(c) Ansel.
(d) Dodge.

3. What seemed to be just below the surface of this family's relationship?
(a) That Tilden was a practising Catholic.
(b) That Father Dewis truly cared for Halie.
(c) The fact that Bradley was a drunk.
(d) A light reference to a dark family secret.

4. What is in Illinois?
(a) The jail.
(b) The farm.
(c) Bradley's house.
(d) Ansel's wedding.

5. What is orderly disorder?
(a) The inevitabilite uncertainy in the universe holds the world together.
(b) When the charactures can't get along, thus disorder occurs.
(c) When family members destroys order in the universe.
(d) When disorder returns to order.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what condition did Tilden come back inside?

2. Dodge said this to who? "Don't go outside. There's nothing out there."

3. What brings about the climax of the story?

4. Who is Shelly?

5. Who behaves most rationally in this play?

(see the answer key)

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