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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. How much extra does Seth want to charge Herald Loomis per week for his daughter's food?
(a) seventy cents
(b) twenty cents
(c) three dollars
(d) one dollar

2. Why does Seth say jokingly that he married Bertha?
(a) her good cooking
(b) her sound advice
(c) her money
(d) her dresses

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

4. What did Mattie's man say was on her?
(a) an aura of death
(b) the devil's breath
(c) a curse prayer
(d) a dark cloud

5. What does Loomis say he's waiting on, when Bynum asks him?
(a) the breath to go into his body
(b) the sun to rise up
(c) the water to recede
(d) the Earth to crackle

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bynum caution Jeremy that he's doing to Mattie, asking her to move in so soon?

2. What did the last person Seth said "wasn't right" do?

3. Where does Bynum say he gets his name?

4. How does Seth realize who Herald Loomis' wife is?

5. Why did Selig leave his wife?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Jeremy not want to enter a guitar-playing contest?

3. What does Mattie tell Loomis when he says he needs to find a starting place?

4. What does Seth report that Loomis is doing, after he's left the boardinghouse?

5. What does Bertha says Bynum has been doing all morning at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?

6. What does Bynum says "shows what a woman is"?

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

8. Why does Seth say he wants Jeremy to get his guitar?

9. What was Bynum's first reaction to finding his song?

10. What things does Bynum say a woman taught Jeremy?

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