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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Play Five, which Talberts does Ezekiel tell Jed they kill?
(a) The women.
(b) Richard and Randall.
(c) The men.
(d) All of them.

2. When Patrick Rowen and his father Michael argue in Play Three, The Homecoming, what does Star deliberately do to Michael in his bath?
(a) Scalds him with hot water.
(b) Freezes him with cold water.
(c) Tries to drown him.
(d) Puts soap in his eyes.

3. What arrangement does Jeremiah make with Patrick in Play Four for payment of Patrick's debts?
(a) Jeremiah pays the debts in full for Patrick.
(b) Jeremiah accepts Patrick's slaves as payment in full.
(c) Patrick must sharecrop the land he once owns.
(d) Jeremiah takes half the Rowen land, not all of it.

4. In Scene Two of The Courtship of Morning Star, why can't the Indian woman escape?
(a) She is locked in a cell.
(b) Her wrist is tied to Michael Rowen's with a rawhide thong.
(c) She is ill.
(d) She has no horse.

5. 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 tells Rowen she loves him.
(b) She bursts into tears.
(c) She pulls a knife on Rowen.
(d) She breaks a chair over Rowen's head.

6. When Jed returns home at the end of Play Five, what do he and his father and friends do?
(a) Switch sides and fight for the Yankees.
(b) Attack the Talbert home, burning and killing.
(c) Go into hiding from Sherman's Yankee army.
(d) Have a celebratory dinner.

7. Who is wresting as Play Four, Ties That Bind, opens?
(a) Zeke and Zach.
(b) Jessie and Zach.
(c) Patrick and Jessie.
(d) Jessie and Zeke.

8. What is Zeke's relationship to Zach in Play Four, Ties that Bind?
(a) They are friends.
(b) They are brothers.
(c) They are cousins.
(d) They are neighbors.

9. If Patrick Rowen scratches his head before sending Zeke and Zach to the house during the court's visit, what are Zeke and Zach to do?
(a) Fetch their rifles.
(b) Flee the cabin on horseback.
(c) Bring food for the court officials.
(d) Bring another jug of whiskey for the court officials.

10. What does the prologue in Play Six, Tall Tales, discuss?
(a) The history of the Rowen family.
(b) The beauty of spring in the mountains.
(c) The history of the Talbert family.
(d) Coal mining.

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

12. In what does the narrator of the prologue in Play Six no longer believe ?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Stories.
(c) God.
(d) True love.

13. What is the name of the tree under which Mary Anne's great-great-grandfather, Michael Rowen, buys his land from the Indians?
(a) Indian Maple.
(b) Treaty Oak.
(c) Cherokee Oak.
(d) Cherokee Birch.

14. Which of the following statements does not describe an aspect of Jed Rowen's dream at the beginning of Play Five?
(a) Jed's grandfather, Patrick, dies.
(b) Jed eats at a church picnic in an orchard.
(c) His father Ezekiel preaches from Revelations.
(d) Two women read a list of men's names including his.

15. In what year is Play One, Masters of the Trade, set?
(a) 1775.
(b) 2009.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1920.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose raiders does Jed join after he leaves Talbert's army in Play Five?

2. What is Mary Anne's relationship with Tommy Jackson in Play Six?

3. In Play Five, who heads the wrong way, while riding out to Bowling Green when Talbert's army first heads off to battle?

4. What does Michael Rowen say he wants when he appears at Earl Tod's campfire in Play One?

5. In Play One, Masters of the Trade, how does Michael Rowen say he injures his ankle?

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