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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Halie treat Dodge?
(a) She is faithful to her vows.
(b) Joy overflows their relationship.
(c) She retreats from him, hiding upstairs.
(d) She talk continuously about her beloved.

2. Where did Bradley go, only to return emotionally broken?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Texas.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Illinios.

3. What is in Illinois?
(a) Bradley's house.
(b) The jail.
(c) The farm.
(d) Ansel's wedding.

4. What seemed to be just below the surface of this family's relationship?
(a) That Father Dewis truly cared for Halie.
(b) That Tilden was a practising Catholic.
(c) A light reference to a dark family secret.
(d) The fact that Bradley was a drunk.

5. Halie pretends to care for who?
(a) Tilden.
(b) Ansel.
(c) Dodge.
(d) Bradley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who owned this farm?

2. Who was an all-American halfback with a bright future ahead of them?

3. Who is Ansel?

4. What event resulted because of the disintegration of this family structure?

5. Who did Halie say this about? "I had no idea he would be that much trouble".

Short Essay Questions

1. What are we told happened to Ansel?

2. What proves that Halie is far from a care taking wife?

3. What's one indication that Tilden is not his self and disturbed?

4. Why does Halie resent the Catholics?

5. What is Halie's way of showing her apparent concern for Dodge?

6. How are Dodge and Halie presented in the first act?

7. In the first act, where are the characters?

8. What is Tilden's condition when he gets back from his stay in New Mexico?

9. What is Halie's frustration over the two brothers, Tilden and Bradley?

10. What might be Bradley's reasons for being so mean?

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