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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Seth tell Molly is served on Sundays?
(a) barbequed ribs
(b) roast beef
(c) fresh eggs
(d) fried chicken

3. Who is Herald Loomis looking for?
(a) his uncle Paul
(b) his cousin Glory
(c) his son Gerry
(d) his wife Martha

4. What does Bynum say he has a woman in?
(a) future time
(b) memory time
(c) eternal time
(d) living time

5. How many more dustpans does Selig want?
(a) none
(b) fifty
(c) as many as Seth can make
(d) ten

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

7. Why does Zonia say she and her father have to find her mother?
(a) They need to give her mother an inheritance.
(b) Her mother is in trouble with the law.
(c) They need to bring her mother news.
(d) Her mother ran away and left them.

8. Who is Sally?
(a) Selig's wife
(b) Selig's horse
(c) Selig's daugher
(d) Selig's cat

9. Who offers help if Mattie or Molly need anything, now that they've moved into the rooming house?
(a) Seth
(b) Jeremy
(c) Bertha
(d) Bynum

10. Who left the rooming house, still owing Seth two dollars?
(a) Reuben
(b) Hiram
(c) Eugene
(d) Martha

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

12. Why did Martha leave the rooming house?
(a) She found cheaper lodgings.
(b) She went to be with her mother.
(c) They moved the church.
(d) She married a man.

13. What do Jeremy and Molly compliment Bertha on?
(a) her cooking
(b) her coffee
(c) her jokes
(d) her cleaning

14. What is Seth having difficulty finding at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) time to make his pots
(b) something to look forward to
(c) money to start up a business
(d) Martha Pentecost

15. What two meals does Seth provide for his boarders?
(a) breakfast and tea
(b) breakfast and dinner
(c) lunch and dinner
(d) breakfast and lunch

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bynum compare a woman to, that's "all a man needs to live on"?

2. What does Seth tell Bertha to set aside, to come Juba instead?

3. What does Bertha want Seth to make her?

4. Why did Selig leave his wife?

5. What instrument does Seth play?

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