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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many daughters does Dodge and Halie have?
(a) Three.
(b) None.
(c) The one that is still a farmer.
(d) One.
2. How long had Vince been gone?
(a) Eight years.
(b) Three years.
(c) Fourteen years.
(d) Six years.
3. What character stayed on stage during the first two acts of the play?
(a) The host of the church meetings.
(b) The minister, and friend.
(c) The owner, and the farmer of the land.
(d) A city man trying to learn to farm.
4. Who didn't remember Vince?
(a) Tilden and Bradley.
(b) Bradley and Halie.
(c) Dodge and Tilden.
(d) Halie and Tilden.
5. What does Shelly do when she sees Tilden coming in from the backyard?
(a) Turned her back on him.
(b) Play tricks.
(c) Helped him carry the carrots.
(d) Buy a bottle of whiskey.
6. What part of this play reflects Sam Shephard's own life?
(a) His father was an alcoholic.
(b) His mother had an affair with her minister.
(c) His father a Christain.
(d) his brother had an affair with hiis minister.
7. Who is Vince?
(a) Father Dewis' partner.
(b) Tilden's friend.
(c) Bradley's son.
(d) Dodge and Halie's grandson.
8. What does Bradley do to Dodge when he comes by?
(a) Brings him a new blanket to repalce the one he lost.
(b) Brings him a bottle of whiskey.
(c) Leaves Dodge's head gashed and bleeding.
(d) Turns off the TV so Dodge can't watch it.
9. 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.
10. When is Ansel to come home?
(a) Thursday, he is Bradley's handyman.
(b) Tomorrow, he is the church's handyman.
(c) Soon, he is on his way home from New Mexico.
(d) Never, he died on his honeymoon.
11. Where were Vince and Shelly heading when they stopped at the farm?
(a) Arizona.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Texas.
12. Finally, what did Vince cry out in anguish?
(a) Who is this Father Dewis?
(b) Where is Ansel?
(c) Did I betray some secret family taboo?
(d) When will Bradley be home?
13. What was the result of the incestuous relationship between Halie and Tilden?
(a) Bradley became a father.
(b) Dodge and Halie had a better relationship.
(c) A baby boy was born.
(d) Dodge and Tiden had a stronger relationship.
14. What is the dark thread that weaves though this play?
(a) Dodge and Shelly have a sexual relationship.
(b) Halie and Bradley have a incestual relationship.
(c) Halie and Tilden had an incestual relationship.
(d) Vince and Halie have a incestual relaionship.
15. Who was a Catholic bride?
(a) Bradley's wife.
(b) Ansel's wife.
(c) Father Dewis's wife.
(d) Dodge's girfriend.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who had the incestuous relationship?
2. Who did Dodge send after a bottle?
3. What vegetables did Tilden pick from the garden?
4. What does Tilden talk to Shelly about?
5. What does Sam Shepherd's believe America has lost touch with?
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