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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What instrument does Seth play?
(a) drums
(b) a harmonica
(c) a guitar
(d) a horn
2. Who does Bertha say she gets along with?
(a) men
(b) children
(c) everybody
(d) women
3. In Bynum's metaphor, what is Mattie?
(a) a plate of food
(b) the road
(c) the wind
(d) land in the distance
4. How much time passes between the end of Act 1, Scene 1, and the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) a year
(b) one day
(c) three months
(d) one week
5. What does Bynum caution Jeremy that he's doing to Mattie, asking her to move in so soon?
(a) spoiling her
(b) demeaning her
(c) ignoring her
(d) making a promise he can't keep
6. What does Bertha say about Loomis hiring Selig?
(a) He's made a good deal.
(b) He'll never hear from Selig again.
(c) He's got nothing to worry about now.
(d) He's wasted a dollar.
7. Why does Seth say jokingly that he married Bertha?
(a) her money
(b) her dresses
(c) her sound advice
(d) her good cooking
8. Where does Bynum say everyone in the vision is going?
(a) along the road, their own ways
(b) down into the cellar of the world
(c) into the ocean again
(d) up into the sky
9. Where was Molly planning on going, if she hadn't missed the train?
(a) Minneapolis
(b) Cincinnati
(c) Chicago
(d) New York
10. What is the first question Seth asks Molly?
(a) who told her about his house
(b) where she comes from
(c) whether she has any money
(d) how long she's staying
11. What spiritual entity is mentioned in the Juba, as noted in the play's stage direction?
(a) the God of Nature
(b) the Holy Ghost
(c) the Heavenly Father
(d) Jesus
12. How much time has passed between the end of Act 1, Scene 2 and the beginning of Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) one month
(b) one day
(c) one week
(d) one year
13. In what strange way does Loomis start to speak?
(a) in tongues
(b) in Swahili
(c) backwards
(d) in French
14. What does Seth say was Martha's job, when Bynum first came to the rooming house?
(a) sewing and cleaning for Doc Goldblum
(b) cooking for Doc Goldblum
(c) running the pharmacy for Doc Goldblum
(d) taking care of Doc Goldblum's children
15. What does Bynum compare a woman to, that's "all a man needs to live on"?
(a) water and berries
(b) meat and milk
(c) bread and wine
(d) biscuits and gravy
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Seth say Selig would have to do, if Seth got his business going?
2. What does Bertha call Zonia?
3. What two meals does Seth provide for his boarders?
4. How long does Seth say Bynum has been at the rooming house?
5. What does Seth think of Bynum's story of a shiny man?
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