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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play Eight, Which Side Are You On, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What arrangement does Jeremiah make with Patrick in Play Four for payment of Patrick's debts?
(a) Jeremiah pays the debts in full for Patrick.
(b) Jeremiah accepts Patrick's slaves as payment in full.
(c) Patrick must sharecrop the land he once owns.
(d) Jeremiah takes half the Rowen land, not all of it.

2. What does Michael Rowen say he wants when he appears at Earl Tod's campfire in Play One?
(a) A horse.
(b) Money.
(c) Food and warmth from the fire.
(d) Guns.

3. In Scene Two of Play Eight, who does Joshua call "the Mother Jones of Howsen County"?
(a) James Talbert's wife.
(b) Sureta Biggs.
(c) His mother, Mary Anne.
(d) Margaret.

4. What happens to Star at the end of Play Three, The Homecoming?
(a) Patrick shoots her.
(b) She gets a new horse.
(c) Patrick orders her off his land and she vows to see him hang.
(d) She marries Joe Talbert.

5. How much money does Tommy have to pay the fee for which the preacher asks?
(a) Fifty cents.
(b) Ten dollars.
(c) One dollar.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who buys the winner of the boxing match in Play Seven a beer to celebrate the victory?

2. What is Joshua's relationship with Lana in Play Eight?

3. What brings Abe Steinman to Mary Anne's door?

4. When Mary Anne argues with Tommy over what he wants the preacher to do in Play Seven, how does Tommy respond?

5. What is the only thing Ezekiel Rowen takes from the Talbert home at the end of Play Five?

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