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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bynum give Mattie?
(a) a pouch of herbs to make a tea that will ease pain
(b) a cloth packet to put under her pillow for luck
(c) a potion to drink to bring love to her
(d) a candle to burn each night until she forgets her sorrow

2. What does Bynum say a woman can do?
(a) make you unable to see the truth
(b) make something out of you
(c) make you a child again
(d) leave you in tears

3. What does Seth think of Bynum's story of a shiny man?
(a) He thinks it's important to find out if it's true.
(b) He thinks it's nonsense.
(c) He thinks it's a hallucination.
(d) He thinks it's a story Bynum heard elsewhere.

4. Who is missing from the dinner table, at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) Mattie
(b) Seth
(c) Loomis
(d) Jeremy

5. What does Molly come to Seth's house looking for?
(a) a room
(b) a job
(c) her child
(d) her husband

6. Who does Jeremy want Selig to find?
(a) a brother he's lost track of
(b) his aunt he knew as a child
(c) a cousin from another state
(d) a girl he used to know

7. How long does Seth say it would take him to teach Bynum to make a pot?
(a) two days
(b) two months
(c) two weeks
(d) two hours

8. Where does Molly go after paying Seth for a week's board and lodging?
(a) to the outhouse
(b) to her room
(c) to the church
(d) out to the twon

9. What fine did Jeremy have to pay?
(a) two dollars
(b) no fine
(c) thirty dollars
(d) fifty cents

10. Why doesn't Seth want to tell Loomis where Martha is?
(a) He's afraid Loomis wants to harm her.
(b) He wants to keep Martha away from her daughter.
(c) He wants Loomis to give him money first.
(d) He doesn't know for sure which Martha he's looking for.

11. Why does Loomis say he can't stand up?
(a) He says the Earth is grabbing him.
(b) He says he doesn't want to stand.
(c) He says his legs won't stand.
(d) He says his legs are missing.

12. What does Bertha call Zonia?
(a) an ignorant child
(b) a lazy girl
(c) a happy innocent
(d) a good helper

13. In Bynum's metaphor, what is Mattie?
(a) a plate of food
(b) the wind
(c) land in the distance
(d) the road

14. What does Mattie say about moving in to the boardinghouse?
(a) She had to sell some of her things to have room.
(b) She didn't bring all of her things.
(c) She didn't have many things and Jeremy helped her.
(d) She will need a few days to finish moving.

15. Where does Bynum say everyone in the vision is going?
(a) into the ocean again
(b) along the road, their own ways
(c) down into the cellar of the world
(d) up into the sky

Short Answer Questions

1. What two meals does Seth provide for his boarders?

2. What aspect of Mattie's looks does Jeremy comment on favorably?

3. What spiritual entity is mentioned in the Juba, as noted in the play's stage direction?

4. What does Herald Loomis say his profession is?

5. What does Loomis start to do to demonstrate how big he is?

(see the answer keys)

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