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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 animal is the lullaby about that is sung in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Dog.
(b) Cat.
(c) Horse.
(d) Pig.

2. What reason does the son give his mother to explain why there are no trees on his bride's land?
(a) It's dry.
(b) There is no man to plant trees.
(c) They do not know how to plant trees.
(d) They don't want trees.

3. What is the father talking about when he says, "Every sprig a coin of silver"?
(a) His land.
(b) Marriage.
(c) The mother's vineyard.
(d) Grandchildren.

4. Who is the mother talking about when she says, "He'd have found water. In our three years he planted ten cherry trees"?
(a) Her dead husband.
(b) The bride's father.
(c) Her dead son.
(d) Her son.

5. Who does the mother reminisce about by noting that he is now the same age as the bride would be on her wedding day?
(a) Her grandchild.
(b) Herself.
(c) Her son.
(d) Her dead son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Finish the line from the lullaby: "With a branch of dreams, and a dream of ____".

2. When describing a man coming home dead, what item does the mother mention is placed across his breast?

3. Who says, "I'm happy. When I say 'yes', I say it because I mean it"?

4. Who says, "He's down there stretched out, with his eyeballs bulging..."?

5. Where is the son going when he asks his mother for a knife?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Leonardo's wife react when she hears her cousin is to be married?

2. How does the mother react when she learns her son's bride once dated a member of the Felix family?

3. Why does the mother say she wishes her son was a girl?

4. What do the woodcutters argue with the moon about when they first meet?

5. What are some of the positive things the father says about his daughter to the son and his mother when they first meet?

6. How does the bride react after the servant tells her that a man on a horse was at her window?

7. What does Leonardo tell the bride they're pretending by claiming to forget about their love and move on to other people? What has this really caused to happen?

8. What does the mother say about the day her other son died?

9. What do the groom and the youth discuss in the forest in Act 3, Scene 1?

10. What reasons do the mother and son give to the bride's father when he asks why they took the long way around to his home?

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