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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play Seven, Fire in the Hole, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long after the first play does the second play, The Courtship of Morning Star, take place?
(a) Ten years.
(b) One hundred years.
(c) One year.
(d) Twenty-five years.

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

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

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

5. What deal does Michael Rowen make with the Cherokee warriors Dragging Canoe and Taskwan in Play One, Masters of the Trade?
(a) A trade of beads for horses.
(b) A trade of powder, shot and blankets for fur pelts.
(c) A trade of whiskey for women.
(d) A trade of whiskey for fresh fish and game.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following statements does not describe an aspect of Jed Rowen's dream at the beginning of Play Five?

3. Who does Michael Rowen order to bathe him when he returns home from Louisville in Play Three, The Homecoming?

4. What happens in Lawrenceburg, Kansas in Play Five, God's Great Supper?

5. In Play Three, The Homecoming, what does Patrick Rowen do to his father Michael during their argument while Michael bathes?

(see the answer key)

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