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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. Whose betrayal started the total destruction of this family?
(a) Bradley's
(b) Tilden's
(c) Halie's
(d) Ansel's wife

2. Who brings vegetables in from the garden?
(a) Dodge.
(b) Tilden.
(c) Bradley.
(d) Halie.

3. Who has a security blanket?
(a) Bradley.
(b) Dodge.
(c) Halie.
(d) Tilden.

4. When did Halie say she knew Ansel would be a dead man?
(a) When he placed a ring on his bride's finger.
(b) When he kissed the bride.
(c) When Dodge cried.
(d) When the priest had a gun.

5. What event resulted because of the disintegration of this family structure?
(a) The audultrious relationship between Father Dewis and Halie.
(b) Ansel's marriage to a Catholic girl.
(c) The incestuous relationship between Tilden and Halie.
(d) The sexual relationship between Teldon and Bradley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did Dodge hold in the family?

2. There are vague hints about a dark secret hidden in what area of the farm?

3. What does Halie say Dodge has become?

4. What is primary character does Halie portray?

5. Where did Tilden return from, broken and unable to care for himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the family members get along in the first act of this play?

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

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

4. Where is Tilden prohibited from going to?

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

6. What are we told happened to Ansel?

7. What is Bradley like at the start of the play?

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

9. Why do you think Tilden acts the way he does?

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

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