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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Play Eight, what do the local union presidents want to discuss with Joshua about the contract with the mining company?
(a) The layoffs and safety.
(b) The pensions.
(c) The wages.
(d) The work hours.

2. What does Mary Anne do when J.T. is attacked in Play Six?
(a) Helps him fend off his attacker.
(b) Runs away and hides.
(c) Runs for help.
(d) Helps his attacker.

3. During dinner in Play Six, what does Sallie make Jed add to his whiskey?
(a) Buttermilk.
(b) Bicarbonate of soda.
(c) Ice water.
(d) Peppermint.

4. When a huge explosion occurs at the mine in Play Eight, what does James Talbert initially think causes it?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) A mining accident.
(c) The safety problems at the mine.
(d) A bomb.

5. Why does Mary Anne give Abe the Rowen family watch in Play Seven?
(a) To purchase more medicine for Joshua.
(b) He is her long lost brother.
(c) As a token of her esteem.
(d) To buy guns to fight the mining company.

6. Who promises Scotty to personally take care of the safety concerns at the mines in Play Eight?
(a) Joshua.
(b) James Talbert.
(c) Franklin Biggs.
(d) Scotty.

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

8. What does J.T. talk Jed Rowen into doing in Play Six?
(a) Going into business with him.
(b) Getting drunk.
(c) Buying more land.
(d) Selling the mineral rights to the Rowen land.

9. At the end of Play Seven, what happens to Cassius?
(a) He escapes.
(b) He gets shot by mining company thugs.
(c) He gets bit by a snake.
(d) He is arrested.

10. 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?
(a) Dust, which is a safety issue.
(b) Not enough miners working each shift.
(c) Layoffs.
(d) Poor wages.

11. 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?
(a) He is afraid of Tommy.
(b) The rights are worth a lot more than J.T. pays for them.
(c) Everything he says about the mineral rights is a lie.
(d) The mining company destroys the land.

12. At the end of Play Eight, what does Joshua want to tell the press about the explosion?
(a) That it is a bomb.
(b) That it is an earthquake.
(c) That it is an accident.
(d) The truth, that the company ignores safety concerns.

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

14. After the tragedy at the mine in Play Seven, what does Tommy tell Andrew he wants?
(a) To leave Howsen County.
(b) A promotion.
(c) His job back and his family to be safe.
(d) Money.

15. How does Tommy excuse his role in what happens at the Treaty Oak?
(a) He says he doesn't believe in the union.
(b) He says he does it to protect his family from the Army.
(c) He says Andrew and the mining company threaten him.
(d) He says it is an accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year is Play Seven, Fire in the Hole, set?

2. Who beats another miner in an informal boxing match in Play Seven, Fire in the Hole?

3. What happens in Play Seven, Fire in the Hole, when Tommy sets a fuse while working with Cassius Biggs and Mackie?

4. 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?

5. During dinner in Play Six, what does Mary Anne say makes her father a hero?

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