View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who had a wooden leg?
(a) Dodge.
(b) Father Dewis.
(c) Tilden.
(d) Bradley.

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

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

7. What does Halie present herself to be?
(a) A caring and loving wife and mother.
(b) Mother of Father Dewis to cover for the affair.
(c) A friend of Ansel's wife even though she was a Catholic.
(d) Vince's girlfriend to smooth the chaos in the family.

8. Who is Vince?
(a) Father Dewis' partner.
(b) Bradley's son.
(c) Tilden's friend.
(d) Dodge and Halie's grandson.

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

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

11. What was the result of the incestuous relationship between Halie and Tilden?
(a) Dodge and Halie had a better relationship.
(b) A baby boy was born.
(c) Dodge and Tiden had a stronger relationship.
(d) Bradley became a father.

12. Who did Tilden talk to about his lost little baby?
(a) Shelly.
(b) Father Dewis.
(c) Bradley.
(d) Halie.

13. The children reflects what in this play?
(a) Their hunger for vegetables.
(b) The brokeness of the family structure.
(c) How much they miss Ansel.
(d) The happieness found in Illinois.

14. Who were they going to see in New Mexico?
(a) Tilden.
(b) Ansel.
(c) Dodge.
(d) Bradley.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had the incestuous relationship?

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

3. Who was a Catholic bride?

4. Where did Vince get the money to buy the whiskey?

5. How did Halie betray the family?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 495 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample