View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Scene Four of The Courtship of Morning Star, how does Morning star respond when Michael Rowen pulls her into his lap and begins kissing her?
(a) She breaks a chair over Rowen's head.
(b) She pulls a knife on Rowen.
(c) She tells Rowen she loves him.
(d) She bursts into tears.

2. In Play Four, what does Patrick Rowen ask Jessie to do with the circuit court's mules, if any shooting occurs during the court's visit?
(a) Shoot the mules.
(b) Drown the mules.
(c) Feed the mules.
(d) Make the mules hard to find.

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

4. In Play Nine, who appears onstage to surround Joshua when he reburies the buckskins?
(a) His son and mother and Rowen ancestors.
(b) Abe and Cassius.
(c) Margaret and Lana.
(d) Mackie and Stucky.

5. 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 makes Randall tend the family mules.
(d) He withholds Randall's monthly allowance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Joshua's relationship with Lana in Play Eight?

2. When the union presidents meet with Joshua in Play Eight, what does Calvin say he is complaining about for months at the Blue Star mine?

3. In Play Eight, what issue does Scotty tell Joshua the miners are upset about in the new contract with the mining company?

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

5. What does Earl Tod do before he offers Michael Rowen food and water?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 354 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample