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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What character stayed on stage during the first two acts of the play?
(a) The owner, and the farmer of the land.
(b) A city man trying to learn to farm.
(c) The minister, and friend.
(d) The host of the church meetings.

2. What did Sam Shepherd chose a farm as the setting of this play?
(a) He was sure Dodge would rallie in the end.
(b) it was a contrast between fertile farming and the deteriation of this family.
(c) It was a beautiful vision of this family's fruitful garden.
(d) He loves to watch vegetables grow.

3. Whose betrayal started the total destruction of this family?
(a) Ansel's wife
(b) Tilden's
(c) Bradley's
(d) Halie's

4. Who shouts from upstairs telling Dodge to take his medication when he coughs?
(a) Tilden.
(b) Father Dewis.
(c) Halie.
(d) Bradley.

5. What seemed to be just below the surface of this family's relationship?
(a) A light reference to a dark family secret.
(b) That Tilden was a practising Catholic.
(c) That Father Dewis truly cared for Halie.
(d) The fact that Bradley was a drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tilden talk to Shelly about?

2. Where did Vince get the money to buy the whiskey?

3. What is the main theme of this play?

4. What does Bradley do to Dodge when he comes by?

5. Ansel was a promising son of who?

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