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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. In Play Five, which Talberts does Ezekiel tell Jed they kill?
(a) The men.
(b) Richard and Randall.
(c) All of them.
(d) The women.

2. When Talbert and his men retreat to the river during their first battle in Play Five, what happens to Talbert?
(a) He is captured by a Union lieutenant.
(b) He develops dysentery.
(c) He falls and breaks his ankle.
(d) He is wounded by a Union bullet.

3. Why does J.T. claim he is saving Mary Anne's life or at least her soul?
(a) Indians are lurking in the woods nearby.
(b) He is a preacher.
(c) The devil is said to hide in the muddy bottom of streams.
(d) She can fall into the stream and drown.

4. In Play Five, how does Randall's father, Richard, punish the boy for running away?
(a) He makes Randall work the fields with the sharecroppers.
(b) He makes Randall tend the family mules.
(c) He withholds Randall's monthly allowance.
(d) He whips Randall's hand and sends him home.

5. What is the only thing Ezekiel Rowen takes from the Talbert home at the end of Play Five?
(a) The gold pocket watch that is once his father Patrick's.
(b) A Bible.
(c) Richard Talbert's Colt pistols.
(d) Talbert's military sword.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Earl Tod's country of origin?

2. 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?

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. In Play Four, to whom does Patrick Rowen owe money now that his bank folds?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Scotty's tragic flaw?

2. Discuss the significance of the title of Play Seven, Fire in the Hole, both literally and figuratively.

3. What is the significance of the pock marks on Morning Star's skin in Play Two, The Courtship of Morning Star?

4. What does Patrick Rowen tell Rebecca in Play Three, The Homecoming, that his father does to his baby sister?

5. Why doesn't Tommy Jackson trust J.T. in Scene One of Play Six, Tall Tales?

6. Do things improve for the coal miners between the formation of the union in 1920 and Joshua Rowen's speech in Union Hall in 1954 at the beginning of Play Eight?

7. From where does Joshua get the Rowen gold watch in Play Nine, what does he do with it and what do his actions symbolize?

8. Why are Mary Anne and Tommy willing to take Abe Steinman in as a boarder, even though he is a stranger and involved with the union?

9. 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?

10. Describe the mining incident with Mackie in Scene One of Play Seven.

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