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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tragedy happens while Tommy and Joshua are at the mine in Play Seven?
(a) An auto crash.
(b) A child drowns.
(c) A coal bump or collapse of the mine.
(d) A train wreck.

2. What do the other miners tease Tommy and Joshua about when Joshua arrives at the mine in Play Seven?
(a) Their stuttering.
(b) Joshua's shortness.
(c) Joshua's blonde hair.
(d) Their clumsiness at mining.

3. Why does Joshua think the water tastes funny in Play Seven, Fire in the Hole?
(a) He is still ill with a fever.
(b) It has medicine in it.
(c) His mother is boiling it to keep him free of fever.
(d) It has sugar in it.

4. What is Joshua's relationship with Lana in Play Eight?
(a) She's a neighbor.
(b) She's his secretary and he's having an affair with her.
(c) She's his cousin.
(d) She's a miner's wife.

5. What brings Abe Steinman to Mary Anne's door?
(a) He is a preacher.
(b) He is ill and needs a doctor.
(c) He is a traveling salesman.
(d) He needs a place to stay while looking for work at the mine.

6. Who is Mother Jones in Play Seven?
(a) A nurse.
(b) A woman in Howsen County who has lots of children.
(c) A character in a fictional story.
(d) A West Virginia union organizer Abe talks about.

7. Why don't the Rowens rip up the contract for the mineral rights?
(a) They don't want to believe J.T. tells the truth about lying.
(b) A lawyer advises them not to destroy it.
(c) The contract is fake.
(d) The contract is illegal.

8. Who beats another miner in an informal boxing match in Play Seven, Fire in the Hole?
(a) Tommy.
(b) Mackie.
(c) Abe.
(d) Franklin.

9. What is Abe's real reason for coming to Howsen County?
(a) He is a union organizer.
(b) He wants to buy land.
(c) He wants to find a bride.
(d) He wants to preach.

10. What does Abe urge Tommy to do after the tragedy at the mine in Play Seven?
(a) Leave Mary Anne.
(b) Get some guns and fight the mining company.
(c) Work more hours in the mine.
(d) Leave Howsen County.

11. Who unexpectedly witnesses the events at the Treaty Oak at the end of Play Seven?
(a) Mary Anne.
(b) The sheriff.
(c) Joshua.
(d) Sureta.

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

13. In Scene Two of Play Eight, who does Joshua call "the Mother Jones of Howsen County"?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Sureta Biggs.
(c) His mother, Mary Anne.
(d) James Talbert's wife.

14. In Play Eight, what issue does Scotty tell Joshua the miners are upset about in the new contract with the mining company?
(a) The pension.
(b) The health benefits.
(c) The wages.
(d) The work hours.

15. What happens when J.T. tells a story about two feuding families and a man named Jack killing his rival, Thomas?
(a) Tommy attacks J.T..
(b) The Rowens hate the story.
(c) The Rowens recognize it as Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Jed Rowen falls ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tommy do when he sees what Joshua is reading aloud in Play Seven?

2. 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?

3. What does Abe offer as an advance on his rent?

4. When Sureta Biggs suggests in Play Seven that someone sells out the miners, who does Tommy blame?

5. In Play Seven, what document allows Joshua to work in the mines?

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