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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. In what year is Play Seven, Fire in the Hole, set?
(a) 2005.
(b) 1820.
(c) 1750.
(d) 1920.

2. To whom does Joshua give a speech in the prologue of Play Eight?
(a) Franklin Biggs and James Talbert.
(b) Out of work miners.
(c) His family.
(d) Howsen County voters.

3. Who does Joshua dream of at the beginning of Play Nine?
(a) His youth.
(b) Prosperity.
(c) Scotty and other dead relatives calling to him across a river.
(d) The mine exposion that kills his son.

4. What does J.T. talk Jed Rowen into doing in Play Six?
(a) Getting drunk.
(b) Buying more land.
(c) Going into business with him.
(d) Selling the mineral rights to the Rowen land.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Patrick Rowen tells his father he wants to marry Rebecca Talbert, how does Michael Rowen react?

2. What happens to Star at the end of Play Three, The Homecoming?

3. Who leaves the union meeting in Play Eight to pull the miners out of the unsafe mine?

4. Who identifies what's wrong with Joshua?

5. What does Joshua bury with the buckskins when he reburies them?

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