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

2. How long does Seth say Bynum has been at the rooming house?
(a) three years
(b) ten years
(c) a year
(d) two months

3. Who does Mattie end up making a date with?
(a) Jeremy
(b) Selig
(c) Bynum
(d) Herald

4. What does Reuben sell to Bynum?
(a) pigeons
(b) seeds
(c) stones
(d) carving tools

5. What does Seth suggest Herald Loomis might do?
(a) burn down a farm
(b) rob a bank
(c) steal bread and chickens
(d) rob the church

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bynum's reaction when Seth suggests a Juba?

2. What does Reuben say happened to his best friend?

3. How many more dustpans does Selig want?

4. What was Jeremy arrested for?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jeremy and Mattie's relationship progress?

2. What does Seth say to Loomis, when Loomis first enters in Act 2, Scene 2?

3. What does Martha say happened to her when Herald was taken away?

4. Describe what it means to "Juba."

5. How did Seth and Bertha come to have an empty room when Martha first came to the boardinghouse?

6. Describe Bynum's meeting with the shiny man.

7. What does Selig tell Bynum on his second visit about Bynum's "shiny man"?

8. What does Jeremy say happened to cause him to be arrested?

9. What is Molly's reaction to the death of Mattie's two babies?

10. What is the first thing Loomis describes about his vision?

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