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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 the Cherokee term for Morning Star?
(a) Didi luga.
(b) Gado adi.
(c) Knox Sanale.
(d) O si yo.

2. Why is Randall Talbert running away in Play Five?
(a) To avoid punishment for stealing.
(b) To get married.
(c) To fight the Yankees.
(d) To escape his father's abuse.

3. What does J.T. claim the letters in his name stand for?
(a) Joshua Thomas.
(b) John Tucker.
(c) Joyful Thaddeus.
(d) Just Terrific.

4. How old is Patrick Rowen in Play Five?
(a) 90.
(b) 50.
(c) 85.
(d) 35.

5. What happens to Morning Star's leg in Scene Five of The Courtship of Morning Star?
(a) Rowen cuts her tendon so she can't run away.
(b) It develops a red rash.
(c) A snake bites it.
(d) Morning Star breaks it during a fall down some stairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Talberts survive the attack on their home in Play Five?

2. What does Earl Tod do before he offers Michael Rowen food and water?

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

4. In Play Three, The Homecoming, what does Patrick Rowen do to his father Michael during their argument while Michael bathes?

5. What happens to Joe Talbert, Star's lover, at the end of Play Three, The Homecoming?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Jed tells Mary Anne the truth about the contract he persuaded her father to sign in Scene Three of Play Six?

2. What deal does Tommy make with Andrew in Scene Eight of Play Seven and why does he make it?

3. Which Talberts does Jed let live when his family attacks the Talbert homestead in Play Five, God's Great Supper?

4. Discuss Joshua's dream at the beginning of Play Nine and what it symbolizes.

5. 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?

6. At the beginning of Play Seven, what is wrong with Mary Anne's son, Joshua, and how is Mary Anne coping with it?

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

8. 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?

9. Describe Jed Rowen's dream at the beginning of Play Five, God's Great Supper.

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

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