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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play Three, The Homecoming.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Rebecca Talbert and Patrick Rowen want to do?
(a) Start a business.
(b) Learn to speak Cherokee.
(c) Get married.
(d) Build a house.

2. When Patrick Rowen tells his father he wants to marry Rebecca Talbert, how does Michael Rowen react?
(a) He disapproves and refuses to give Patrick land.
(b) He tells Star to get a preacher to conduct the wedding.
(c) He says he wants Rebecca for himself.
(d) He gives Patrick his blessing.

3. What happens to Morning Star's leg in Scene Five of The Courtship of Morning Star?
(a) Rowen cuts her tendon so she can't run away.
(b) Morning Star breaks it during a fall down some stairs.
(c) It develops a red rash.
(d) A snake bites it.

4. What is Earl Tod's country of origin?
(a) Ireland.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Scotland.

5. In Play Two, The Courtship of Morning Star, what does Michael Rowen claim he does when he is just seven years old?
(a) Rob a merchant.
(b) Go to jail.
(c) Kill his first man.
(d) Become an indentured servant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Rebecca Talbert tell Patrick Rowen his mother Star is visiting?

2. What does Morning Star dangle over her baby son at the end of Scene Six of The Courtship of Morning Star?

3. When Patrick Rowen and his father Michael argue in Play Three, The Homecoming, what does Star deliberately do to Michael in his bath?

4. What is wrong with the blankets Michael Rowen gives Dragging Canoe and Taskwan?

5. How old are Rebecca Talbert and Patrick Rowen in Play Three, The Homecoming?

(see the answer key)

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