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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who suggests the unlikely marriage?
(a) Horace.
(b) Leo.
(c) Oscar.
(d) Ben.

2. Why does Ben say his family is successful?
(a) They have preyed on weak, desperate people and accumulated many properties.
(b) They found new ways to do business and how to make customers pay.
(c) They are lucky.
(d) They have enough money to invest in the latest technology.

3. Who is disgusted by the idea of the unlikely marriage?
(a) Addie.
(b) Ben.
(c) Birdie.
(d) Regina.

4. Who gets slapped in Act 1?
(a) Birdie.
(b) Addie.
(c) Alexandria
(d) Regina.

5. Who challenges Mr. Marshall's choice of term that he used in reference to the family?
(a) Horace.
(b) Ben.
(c) Regina.
(d) Leo.

6. What is Horace's initial response to his family's communications?
(a) He tells Alexandra to tell them no.
(b) He refuses to talk with them.
(c) He does not respond.
(d) He says "absolutely not."

7. Who plays piano for Mr. Marshall?
(a) Cal and Addie.
(b) Leo and Alexandra.
(c) Birdie and Alexandra.
(d) Birdie and Horace.

8. In Act 1, who is anxious to move?
(a) Birdie.
(b) Zan.
(c) Leo.
(d) Regina.

9. Who instructs Alexandra to go pick up her father?
(a) Birdie.
(b) Cal.
(c) Reggie.
(d) Addie.

10. How does Birdie's husband respond to her complaint about his hobby?
(a) He says he'll never do it again.
(b) He laughs at her.
(c) He ignores her.
(d) He hugs her.

11. What surprises and pleases Mr. Marshall about the family's hometown?
(a) They live in the the same town and raised their families there.
(b) It still practices slave labor so wages will be cheaper there.
(c) It's population is booming.
(d) It's proximity to the ocean.

12. What does Alexandra say in Act 1 that irritates her mother?
(a) She won't go.
(b) She won't bring her father home if he's too ill to travel.
(c) She'll go, but won't come back.
(d) She never wants to see her father again.

13. Why does Alexandra dismiss the notion of the unlikely marriage?
(a) She is jealous.
(b) They haven't even kissed yet.
(c) She caught him dancing with another girl.
(d) They are cousins.

14. What business does the family want to start in their hometown?
(a) A cotton gin.
(b) A train station.
(c) A dress shop.
(d) A cotton mill.

15. Who announces to the family that the dinner guests are about to enter the parlor?
(a) Oscar.
(b) Ben.
(c) Cal.
(d) Leo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the special occasion in Act 1?

2. Who does Birdie want to run an errand for her?

3. Who thinks Horace is holding out for more than a third of the deal?

4. What does Birdie say she wants to do with her money?

5. What is Alexandra told is the best cure for her father?

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