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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. What happened to Ansel?
(a) Took all the tools from the farm.
(b) Died on his honeymoon.
(c) Cut off his leg with a chain saw.
(d) He continued to pick vetables from the backyard garden.

2. Who cut off Dodge's hair?
(a) Bradley.
(b) Father Drewis.
(c) Tilden.
(d) Halie.

3. Who are having an adulterous affair in the play?
(a) Halie and Tilden.
(b) Halie and and Dodge.
(c) Halie and Bradley.
(d) Halie and Father Drewis.

4. What type of life did Halie leave behind when she married Dodge?
(a) Life in the city with variety and stimulation.
(b) Being an upstanding member of the church.
(c) Being the mother of Ansel.
(d) Caring for Bradley.

5. Who pretends that their marriage and relationship displays a loving partnership?
(a) Halie.
(b) Tilden.
(c) Bradley.
(d) Dodge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Father Dewis come by?

2. What area can be seen form the living room during the play?

3. Who's life is centered on a couch, television, and a bottle?

4. One of the characters appears to be an upright and righteous member of the church, who is that character?

5. Halie pretends to care for who?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe Halie's character in the first act.

6. Why does Halie resent the Catholics?

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

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

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

10. What does Halie think about Ansel at the beginning of the story?

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