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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who spent time in jail?
(a) Tilden.
(b) Father Dewis.
(c) Bradley.
(d) Dodge.

3. Halie pretends to care for who?
(a) Bradley.
(b) Ansel.
(c) Dodge.
(d) Tilden.

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

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

6. Who pretends that their marriage and relationship displays a loving partnership?
(a) Bradley.
(b) Dodge.
(c) Tilden.
(d) Halie.

7. Who has a security blanket?
(a) Bradley.
(b) Tilden.
(c) Halie.
(d) Dodge.

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

9. Who does Halie say needs to stay out of the yard?
(a) Dodge.
(b) Bradley.
(c) Tilden.
(d) Father Dewis.

10. What happened to Ansel?
(a) Took all the tools from the farm.
(b) Died on his honeymoon.
(c) Cut off his leg with a chain saw.
(d) He continued to pick vetables from the backyard garden.

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

12. When did Halie say she knew Ansel would be a dead man?
(a) When he kissed the bride.
(b) When the priest had a gun.
(c) When he placed a ring on his bride's finger.
(d) When Dodge cried.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main theme of this play?

2. Who has a wooden leg?

3. Who cut off Dodge's hair?

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

5. There are vague hints about a dark secret hidden in what area of the farm?

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