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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play Nine, The War on Poverty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Richard tell Jed they should bury their differences?
(a) He's tired of the bad blood between them.
(b) To unite against a common foe, the Yankees.
(c) He is running for office and wants Jed's vote.
(d) He wants to marry Jed's sister.

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

3. What does Mary Anne offer the doctor in lieu of cash?
(a) The Rowen family's gold pocket watch.
(b) Her homemade preserves.
(c) Rowen land.
(d) Chickens and eggs.

4. What happens in Lawrenceburg, Kansas in Play Five, God's Great Supper?
(a) Talbert gets shot.
(b) Jed watches as Quantrill executes innocent civilians.
(c) Jed falls in love with a Yankee girl.
(d) Jed gets captured by the Yankees.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Sureta Biggs suggests in Play Seven that someone sells out the miners, who does Tommy blame?

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

3. What does Abe offer as an advance on his rent?

4. Who is Mother Jones in Play Seven?

5. Why does Patrick Rowen have three loans from a local bank in Play Four?

(see the answer key)

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