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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What set off this family toward disaster?
(a) The mismatch between Dodge and Halie.
(b) Father Dewis' devotion to Dodge.
(c) Dodge's trust for his wife.
(d) Halie's devotion to her children.

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

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

4. Who usually comes drunk after being out all night? And who does she bring with her?
(a) Bradley and Halie.
(b) Halie and Father Dewis.
(c) Dodge and Halie.
(d) Tilden and Halie.

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

6. Who had an incestuous relationship?
(a) Halie and Ansel.
(b) Halie and Bradley.
(c) Halie and Father Dewis.
(d) Halie and Tilden.

7. Who did Halie say she and Father Dewis was planning a monument for?
(a) Ansel.
(b) Tilden.
(c) Dodge.
(d) Bradley.

8. Who was in New Mexico?
(a) Bradley.
(b) Tilden.
(c) Father Dewis.
(d) Dodge.

9. Who taunted Halie about " the breeder-man teaching her a thing or two"?
(a) Bradley.
(b) Dodge.
(c) Father Dewis.
(d) Tildren.

10. How long has it been since the garden has been worked, according to Dodge?
(a) Thirty years
(b) Tilden's return
(c) Bradley's return
(d) Since the death of Ansel

11. Who was an all-American halfback with a bright future ahead of them?
(a) Dodge.
(b) Tilden.
(c) Bradley.
(d) Father Drewis.

12. If you described Dodge's life, what would be the first thing you would notice?
(a) He is proud of his wife.
(b) He is very active and loves to jog.
(c) His life is confinded to the couch, television, and a bottle.
(d) He is devoted to his children.

13. What did Halie say she and Father Dewis were doing all night when they came home drunk?
(a) Planning for Ansel's saint hood
(b) Dodge's funeral
(c) Planning a monument for Ansel
(d) A memorial service for Bradley

14. Who owned this farm?
(a) Ansel, because he spent his life preparing the land to harvest.
(b) Bradley, since he repesented ordor to this family.
(c) Tilden, because he had a vegetable garden.
(d) Dodge, he was the father and husband.

15. One of the characters appears to be an upright and righteous member of the church, who is that character?
(a) Tilden.
(b) Father Drewis.
(c) Bradley.
(d) Halie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tilden continue to bring in from the backyard?

2. Where did Bradley go, only to return emotionally broken?

3. Who hid under a blanket when they wanted to shut out the world?

4. What type of life did Halie leave behind when she married Dodge?

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

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