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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the dysfunctional theme of this play?
(a) A brother and a sister.
(b) A father and his daughter.
(c) A priest and Shelly.
(d) The incest between a mother and her son.

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

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

4. What character stayed on stage during the first two acts of the play?
(a) The host of the church meetings.
(b) The owner, and the farmer of the land.
(c) The minister, and friend.
(d) A city man trying to learn to farm.

5. 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) Ancel because he died leaving he family broken and grieving.
(d) The two brothers, Tilden and Bradley.

6. What does Sam Shepherd's believe America has lost touch with?
(a) The farm in New Mexico.
(b) The vegetable garden.
(c) The tools to work the agrden.
(d) Their aspirations.

7. When is Ansel to come home?
(a) Never, he died on his honeymoon.
(b) Tomorrow, he is the church's handyman.
(c) Thursday, he is Bradley's handyman.
(d) Soon, he is on his way home from New Mexico.

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

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

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

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

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

13. How many sons do Halie and Dodge have?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) One still alive.

14. How long had Vince been gone?
(a) Fourteen years.
(b) Six years.
(c) Eight years.
(d) Three years.

15. What did Vince do to try to be remembered?
(a) Played the tricks he used to do as a child.
(b) Picked vegetables from the yard.
(c) Cut Dodge's hair.
(d) Met with Father Dewis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Ansel?

2. Who didn't remember Vince?

3. Where were Vince and Shelly heading when they stopped at the farm?

4. Where was Halie in Act 2?

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

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