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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Tilden tell Shelly about the baby?
(a) It brought joy to the family.
(b) It could be held with one hand, it was so small noone could find it.
(c) Halie cried when she saw it's face.
(d) The lose of the baby tore the family apart.

2. What does Shelly do when she sees Tilden coming in from the backyard?
(a) Buy a bottle of whiskey.
(b) Helped him carry the carrots.
(c) Play tricks.
(d) Turned her back on him.

3. Who had the incestuous relationship?
(a) Father Dewis and Shelly.
(b) Bradley and Halie.
(c) Ansel and Halie.
(d) Tilden and Halie.

4. Who spent their time upstairs?
(a) Dodge.
(b) Halie.
(c) Vince.
(d) Shelly.

5. What part of this play reflects Sam Shephard's own life?
(a) His mother had an affair with her minister.
(b) his brother had an affair with hiis minister.
(c) His father a Christain.
(d) His father was an alcoholic.

6. What did Shelly try to do?
(a) Sleep in the room.
(b) Cook corn and carrots.
(c) Persuade Vince to leave.
(d) Buy whiskey.

7. Who did the family fear would be angry about a disorderly house?
(a) Bradley.
(b) Vince.
(c) Ansel.
(d) Father Dewis.

8. Ansel was a promising son of who?
(a) Bradley and Vince.
(b) Dodge and Halie.
(c) Tilden and Halie.
(d) Father Dewis and Halie.

9. What happened to his leg?
(a) Cut off with a chain saw.
(b) Lost it in New Mexico.
(c) Lost it in the backyard.
(d) Lost it on his honeymoon.

10. How did Halie betray the family?
(a) Covering her head with a blanket..
(b) The family's history.
(c) By failing to keep her responsibility's to her husband.
(d) The promises of the church.

11. Who was not recognized after a six year absence?
(a) Halie.
(b) Ansel.
(c) Shelly.
(d) Vince.

12. Finally, what did Vince cry out in anguish?
(a) When will Bradley be home?
(b) Did I betray some secret family taboo?
(c) Who is this Father Dewis?
(d) Where is Ansel?

13. What is the dark thread that weaves though this play?
(a) Halie and Tilden had an incestual relationship.
(b) Halie and Bradley have a incestual relationship.
(c) Vince and Halie have a incestual relaionship.
(d) Dodge and Shelly have a sexual relationship.

14. Who does Sam Shepherd place most of the blame for this family's failure?
(a) Shelly and Father Dewis because they interferred with the family structure.
(b) The mother and father, Halile and Dodge.
(c) The two brothers, Tilden and Bradley.
(d) Ancel because he died leaving he family broken and grieving.

15. Where was Halie in Act 2?
(a) Made a trip to visit with her sister.
(b) She went shopping for baby clothes.
(c) She wroked in the chruch.
(d) She stayed upstairs most of the time.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Tilden talked to Shelly about Vince, what did he say?

2. What is Shelly's relation to the family?

3. What does Tilden talk to Shelly about?

4. How long had Vince been gone?

5. What was Father Dewis's relationship to Halie?

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