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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. When it's clear in Play Eight that miners are pulled out of the Blue Star mine, what does Joshua urge James Talbert to do?
(a) Expand the mine.
(b) Fire the old miners and hire new ones.
(c) Shut the mine down temporarily and clean it out.
(d) Permanently close the mine.

2. In Play Five, how does Randall's father, Richard, punish the boy for running away?
(a) He makes Randall tend the family mules.
(b) He whips Randall's hand and sends him home.
(c) He withholds Randall's monthly allowance.
(d) He makes Randall work the fields with the sharecroppers.

3. What happens to Morning Star's leg in Scene Five of The Courtship of Morning Star?
(a) Morning Star breaks it during a fall down some stairs.
(b) A snake bites it.
(c) It develops a red rash.
(d) Rowen cuts her tendon so she can't run away.

4. What happens to Star at the end of Play Three, The Homecoming?
(a) She marries Joe Talbert.
(b) She gets a new horse.
(c) Patrick orders her off his land and she vows to see him hang.
(d) Patrick shoots her.

5. Where does Cassius Biggs, a black man, once find the kind of liberty he never experiences in America?
(a) In France.
(b) In Mexico.
(c) In Spain.
(d) In Canada.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the tragedy at the mine in Play Seven, what does Tommy tell Andrew he wants?

2. What does Tommy offer Andrew in Play Seven to obtain what he wants?

3. What is the cause of the tragedy at the mine in Play Seven?

4. Which of the following statements is not a reason J.T. wants Mary Anne to ask her father to rip up the contract for the mineral rights to the Rowen farm at the end of Play Six?

5. In Scene Five of The Courtship of Morning Star, what one thought does Morning Star think she and her infant son share?

(see the answer key)

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