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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. What does Jed do when Talbert asks for his help in getting off the battle field in Play Five?
(a) Picks up Talbert's pistol and aims it at Talbert.
(b) Abandons Talbert.
(c) Tends Talbert like a slave would.
(d) Helps Talbert get back to Kentucky.

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

3. 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?
(a) Send the child to live with the Indians.
(b) Leave the baby girl on a mountain to die.
(c) Sell the child as an indentured servant.
(d) Celebrate the girl's birth with a big party.

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

5. In the prologue of Play Six, who stands off to the side while 14-year-old Mary Anne Rowen sits at the creek?
(a) Morning Star Rowen.
(b) Jed Rowen.
(c) The adult Mary Anne.
(d) Michael Rowen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Play Five, God's Great Supper, take place?

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

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

4. What happens when J.T. tells a story about two feuding families and a man named Jack killing his rival, Thomas?

5. What does Michael Rowen say he wants when he appears at Earl Tod's campfire in Play One?

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