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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What vegetables did Tilden pick from the garden?
(a) Cabbages.
(b) Peas and potatoes.
(c) Turnips.
(d) Carrots.

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

3. Where did Vince get the money to buy the whiskey?
(a) From the kitchen table.
(b) From Halie.
(c) From Father Dewis.
(d) From the pantry.

4. Who was responsible for the secret in the backyard?
(a) Halie and Tilden.
(b) Vince and Halie.
(c) Bradley and Halie.
(d) Dodge and Shelly.

5. What did Tilden say about Vince?
(a) Was not good enough for her.
(b) He always went for a bottle.
(c) He was more like a brother.
(d) That he saw a small face inside his face.

6. What is Shelly's relation to the family?
(a) Tilden's wife.
(b) Vince's girlfriend.
(c) Bradley's mother.
(d) Ansel's wife.

7. Who is Shelly?
(a) Vince's sister.
(b) Bradley's wife.
(c) Vince's girlfriend.
(d) Tilden's sister.

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

9. Shelly tries to get Vince to leave even though she feels for who?
(a) Bradley.
(b) Dodge.
(c) Ansel.
(d) Tilden.

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

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

12. Who was an old boyfriend of Halie's who Dodge taunts her about?
(a) A horse breeder.
(b) Her daughter's boyfriend.
(c) A farmer.
(d) Her brother.

13. What two characters are introduced in this act?
(a) Vince and Shelly.
(b) Bradley's brother.
(c) Halie's girlfriend.
(d) Ansel's brother.

14. Who did Shelly try to help with the vegetables from the garden?
(a) Ansel.
(b) Dodge.
(c) Bradley.
(d) Tilden.

15. Who was Ansel?
(a) Dodge and Halie's son.
(b) Tilden and Halie's son.
(c) Dodge and Shelly's son.
(d) Bradley and Shelly's brothe.r

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bradley do to Dodge when he comes by?

2. What did Vince do to try to be remembered?

3. How many sons do Halie and Dodge have?

4. Who is Vince?

5. What did Dodge remove from the table when he sent Vince to town?

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