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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. What happens to most of Mary Anne's children?
(a) They are in college.
(b) They all work the mines.
(c) They die of fevers.
(d) They are sent to live with relatives.

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

3. What does Joshua do when he sees a wolf at the end of Play Nine, The War on Poverty?
(a) He runs away in fear.
(b) He fires his gun and shouts at the wolf to run.
(c) He photographs the wolf.
(d) He shoots and kills the wolf for its fur.

4. What are Abe and Cassius supposed to do at the Treaty Oak at the end of Play Seven?
(a) Hold a pro-union rally.
(b) Steal a car.
(c) Sell moonshine.
(d) Buy guns.

5. In Play Seven, what advice does Tommy give Joshua about his coat on Joshua's first day at the mines?
(a) Don't let anyone steal it.
(b) Keep it clean while in the mine.
(c) Keep it near him while working in the mine.
(d) Take it off while working and put it on when sitting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mary Anne give Abe the Rowen family watch in Play Seven?

2. In Play Two, The Courtship of Morning Star, what does Michael Rowen claim he does when he is just seven years old?

3. In Play Eight, when Stucky arrives at the Union Hall with a man wounded in the explosion, what word does the wounded miner scrawl on a piece of paper to explain the reason for the explosion?

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

5. In what does the narrator of the prologue in Play Six no longer believe ?

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