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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cassius Biggs do to make money in Play Seven?
(a) He is a farmer.
(b) He is a gun dealer.
(c) He is a miner.
(d) He is a politician.

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 blonde hair.
(c) Their clumsiness at mining.
(d) Joshua's shortness.

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

4. 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 Andrew and the mining company threaten him.
(c) He says it is an accident.
(d) He says he does it to protect his family from the Army.

5. In what year does Play Eight, Which Side Are You On, occur?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1934.

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

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

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

9. To whom does Joshua give a speech in the prologue of Play Eight?
(a) Franklin Biggs and James Talbert.
(b) Howsen County voters.
(c) Out of work miners.
(d) His family.

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

11. How does Abe respond when Mary Anne and Tommy argue in Play Seven?
(a) He tells Mary Anne to be patient and not give up hope.
(b) He hits Tommy for hitting Mary Anne.
(c) He agrees with Tommy.
(d) He offers to run away with Mary Anne.

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

13. What does Mary Anne do at the end of Play Seven, Fire in the Hole?
(a) Gives up on the union.
(b) Becomes a coal miner.
(c) Leaves Howsen County.
(d) Abandons Tommy and becomes a union organizer.

14. At the end of Play Eight, who does everyone turn to look at when James Talbert reads the names of the missing miners and announces Scotty's?
(a) Stuckey.
(b) James Talbert.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Joshua.

15. During dinner in Play Six, what does Mary Anne say makes her father a hero?
(a) He rides with Robert E. Lee.
(b) He fights for the Union.
(c) He fights for the Confederacy.
(d) He fights with Quantrill and saves Quantrill's life.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Tommy have to pay the fee for which the preacher asks?

2. 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?

3. Who unexpectedly witnesses the events at the Treaty Oak at the end of Play Seven?

4. Why don't the Rowens rip up the contract for the mineral rights?

5. What is Abe's real reason for coming to Howsen County?

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