1. In Play Five, how does Randall's father, Richard, punish the boy for running away?
(a) He withholds Randall's monthly allowance.
(b) He makes Randall work the fields with the sharecroppers.
(c) He whips Randall's hand and sends him home.
(d) He makes Randall tend the family mules.

2. What is the name of the tree under which Mary Anne's great-great-grandfather, Michael Rowen, buys his land from the Indians?
(a) Cherokee Birch.
(b) Indian Maple.
(c) Treaty Oak.
(d) Cherokee Oak.

3. What is the only thing Ezekiel Rowen takes from the Talbert home at the end of Play Five?
(a) The gold pocket watch that is once his father Patrick's.
(b) A Bible.
(c) Talbert's military sword.
(d) Richard Talbert's Colt pistols.

4. Which Talberts survive the attack on their home in Play Five?
(a) Richard Talbert and his mother.
(b) Young Randall and his grandmother.
(c) The two Talbert women.
(d) Young Randall and his mother.

5. In Play Five, which Talberts does Ezekiel tell Jed they kill?
(a) The men.
(b) The women.
(c) All of them.
(d) Richard and Randall.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Play Two, The Courtship of Morning Star, what does Rowen plan to do if Morning Star has a girl instead of a boy when she delivers the baby she is expecting?

2. What happens to Joe Talbert, Star's lover, at the end of Play Three, The Homecoming?

3. In Scene Four of The Courtship of Morning Star, how does Morning star respond when Michael Rowen pulls her into his lap and begins kissing her?

4. In what does the narrator of the prologue in Play Six no longer believe ?

5. How many years after Play Two does Play Three, The Homecoming, take place?

(see the answer key)

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