View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the family waiting for at the beginning of Act 2?
(a) Money to arrive by Wells Fargo.
(b) Mr. Marshall to arrive.
(c) Horace to arrive.
(d) A check to clear.

2. How does the family intend to honor their employee-related promises to Mr. Marshall?
(a) They have no intentions of honoring their promises.
(b) By playing the employees against each other.
(c) By lying to them.
(d) By tight micro-managment.

3. How much time passes between the end of Act 1 and the beginning of Act 2?
(a) One month.
(b) One night.
(c) One week.
(d) One day.

4. What is Regina's maiden name?
(a) Hubbard.
(b) Glidden.
(c) Gidden.
(d) Marshall.

5. Who rummaged through someone else's safe deposit box?
(a) Birdie.
(b) Leo.
(c) Ben.
(d) Oscar.

6. Who ignores Alexandra's plea to stop stressing her father?
(a) Ben.
(b) Oscar.
(c) Leo.
(d) Regina.

7. What does Regina wonder aloud in front of her guests might have contributed to Horace's poor health?
(a) His own cheapness.
(b) His "cheap women."
(c) His greed.
(d) His "fancy women."

8. What is the brilliant idea that is derived after learning the contents of the safe deposit box?
(a) To stage a fire at the bank and say the bonds were consumed.
(b) To steal the bonds outright.
(c) To take half the bonds and fill the rest of the envelopes with blank papers.
(d) To borrow the bonds, then pay them back.

9. Whose shoe is in the safe deposit box?
(a) Horace's.
(b) Regina's.
(c) Alexandra's.
(d) Leo's.

10. What does Horace drink to prepare for his visit with the family?
(a) Moonshine.
(b) Sweet tea.
(c) Gin.
(d) Coffee.

11. Why does Horace believe the family's business decision is wrong?
(a) They will make money off the labor of men who will not be paid a fair wage.
(b) They know nothing about management.
(c) They know nothing about industrialization.
(d) They know nothing about cotton.

12. Armed with the knowledge of the safe deposit box, who gets a brilliant idea?
(a) Ben.
(b) Leo.
(c) Regina.
(d) Oscar.

13. What is the cash value of the items in the safe deposit box?
(a) 66,000.
(b) $100,000.
(c) $88,000.
(d) $50,000.

14. What is the phrase used to describe the wealth Regina's family wants?
(a) "High-tone rich."
(b) "Mega money."
(c) "Super rich."
(d) "Filthy rich."

15. What other family plan will Horace not endorse?
(a) Industrialization of the south.
(b) Insurance benefits for employees.
(c) A marriage between Leo and Zan.
(d) Building a new plantation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Horace learns that the family promised Mr. Marshall what kind of wages for the facility they plan to build?

2. Who does Horace ask why he's been called home?

3. Who attempts to stop the argument in Act 2?

4. How is it explained to Ben that the family came up with Horace's share of the money?

5. How often is the safe deposit box checked by its owner?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 489 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample