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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play Six, Tall Tales, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years after Play Two does Play Three, The Homecoming, take place?
(a) One hundred years.
(b) Sixteen years.
(c) Ten months.
(d) Two years.

2. What does Michael Rowen take from Earl Tod's belongings after Tod's death?
(a) A wanted poster.
(b) Five hundred dollars in gold and silver.
(c) A gold pocket watch.
(d) A love letter to Tod's wife.

3. When Jed returns home at the end of Play Five, what do he and his father and friends do?
(a) Go into hiding from Sherman's Yankee army.
(b) Attack the Talbert home, burning and killing.
(c) Switch sides and fight for the Yankees.
(d) Have a celebratory dinner.

4. Who makes up what Jed calls Talbert's army in Play Five, God's Great Supper?
(a) Talbert's wife and daughters.
(b) Jed, Talbert's house slave, and a handful of sharecroppers.
(c) Twenty white men from Talbert's county.
(d) Jed and some Irish immigrants.

5. In Play Five, who does Ezekiel find hiding under the Rowen porch and overhearing his conversation with Jed about killing Richard?
(a) Richard.
(b) Joleen.
(c) Randall Talbert.
(d) Jessie.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Play Two, The Courtship of Morning Star, what does Michael Rowen want now that he is prosperous?

2. What is Mary Anne's relationship with Tommy Jackson in Play Six?

3. What is the name of the tree under which Mary Anne's great-great-grandfather, Michael Rowen, buys his land from the Indians?

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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