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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is wrong with the blankets Michael Rowen gives Dragging Canoe and Taskwan?
(a) They're filled with fleas and lice.
(b) They're infected with smallpox.
(c) They're torn and ragged.
(d) They're dirty and long overdue for a washing.

2. In Play Two, The Courtship of Morning Star, what does Michael Rowen claim he does when he is just seven years old?
(a) Rob a merchant.
(b) Go to jail.
(c) Become an indentured servant.
(d) Kill his first man.

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

4. Which Talberts survive the attack on their home in Play Five?
(a) Richard Talbert and his mother.
(b) Young Randall and his grandmother.
(c) Young Randall and his mother.
(d) The two Talbert women.

5. What does the Indian woman try to hit Michael Rowen with in Scene Two of The Courtship of Morning Star?
(a) A log.
(b) A rifle.
(c) A broom.
(d) A coffee pot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements does not describe an aspect of Jed Rowen's dream at the beginning of Play Five?

2. In what year does Play Four, Ties That Bind, take place?

3. What happens to Morning Star's leg in Scene Five of The Courtship of Morning Star?

4. Who gives an inspirational speech when Talbert's army first heads off to battle?

5. When Patrick Rowen and his father Michael argue in Play Three, The Homecoming, what does Star deliberately do to Michael in his bath?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jed's dream change at the end of Play Five, God's Great Supper, from what it is at the beginning of the play?

2. Why doesn't Joshua want the miners to walk out of the unsafe Blue Star Mine in Play Eight?

3. What kind of soldier is Richard Talbert once he gets to the battle field in Play Five, God's Great Supper?

4. At the beginning of Play Six, Tall Tales, why is Mary Anne Rowen reminiscing about how beautiful and colorful spring is in the Kentucky mountains?

5. How do the stories J.T. tells at supper in Scene Two of Play Six, Tall Tales, indicate he does not always tell the truth.

6. What does J.T. talk Jed Rowen into selling in Scene Two of Play Six and does Jed fully understand what he is selling?

7. What evidence is there in Chapters Four to Seven of Play Seven that Tommy Jackson is not interested in supporting a coal miners' union?

8. What thought does Morning Star think she and her newborn son share?

9. How is Ezekiel Rowen's nickname of Preacher ironic?

10. Explain the significance of the fact that Earl Tod speaks Cherokee in Play One, Masters of the Trade, when he first hears someone approaching him from the woods.

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