View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Bring food for the court officials.
(c) Bring another jug of whiskey for the court officials.
(d) Flee the cabin on horseback.

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) Talbert's wife and daughters.
(c) Jed and some Irish immigrants.
(d) Jed, Talbert's house slave, and a handful of sharecroppers.

3. How old are Rebecca Talbert and Patrick Rowen in Play Three, The Homecoming?
(a) Ten.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Twenty.

4. In Play One, Masters of the Trade, in what language does Earl Tod initially speak?
(a) French.
(b) English.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Cherokee.

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 tend the family mules.
(c) He makes Randall work the fields with the sharecroppers.
(d) He withholds Randall's monthly allowance.

6. How long after the first play does the second play, The Courtship of Morning Star, take place?
(a) One year.
(b) Twenty-five years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) One hundred years.

7. In Play Four, to whom does Patrick Rowen owe money now that his bank folds?
(a) Jeremiah.
(b) The town preacher.
(c) Sallie.
(d) The fat circuit court judge.

8. In Play One, Masters of the Trade, how does Michael Rowen say he injures his ankle?
(a) He falls down some steps.
(b) In a tumble down a hill.
(c) His foot gets caught in a bear trap.
(d) In a fall from his horse.

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

10. What does Michael Rowen tell Earl Tod he does in Georgia before coming to Kentucky?
(a) He is a preacher.
(b) He is a schoolmaster.
(c) He is an indentured servant.
(d) He is a soldier.

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

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

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

14. How many years after Play Two does Play Three, The Homecoming, take place?
(a) Sixteen years.
(b) Ten months.
(c) One hundred years.
(d) Two years.

15. At the beginning of Scene One of Play Six, what does J.T. do while Mary Anne Rowen is at the stream?
(a) Clears his throat to introduce himself.
(b) Hums a song.
(c) Tosses a pebble over her shoulder and into the water.
(d) Whistles at her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Patrick Rowen have three loans from a local bank in Play Four?

2. What is the name of the tree under which Mary Anne's great-great-grandfather, Michael Rowen, buys his land from the Indians?

3. 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?

4. Who does Michael Rowen order to bathe him when he returns home from Louisville in Play Three, The Homecoming?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 658 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample