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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was not recognized after a six year absence?
(a) Vince.
(b) Halie.
(c) Shelly.
(d) Ansel.

2. What does the family hedge around?
(a) Ansel has a son.
(b) Father Dewis is really Halie's husband.
(c) A dark family secret.
(d) Bradley has a baby.

3. How many daughters does Dodge and Halie have?
(a) Three.
(b) None.
(c) The one that is still a farmer.
(d) One.

4. What is the dark thread that weaves though this play?
(a) Vince and Halie have a incestual relaionship.
(b) Halie and Bradley have a incestual relationship.
(c) Dodge and Shelly have a sexual relationship.
(d) Halie and Tilden had an incestual relationship.

5. Ansel was a promising son of who?
(a) Dodge and Halie.
(b) Bradley and Vince.
(c) Father Dewis and Halie.
(d) Tilden and Halie.

6. What did Shelly try to do?
(a) Cook corn and carrots.
(b) Persuade Vince to leave.
(c) Buy whiskey.
(d) Sleep in the room.

7. When is Ansel to come home?
(a) Never, he died on his honeymoon.
(b) Thursday, he is Bradley's handyman.
(c) Soon, he is on his way home from New Mexico.
(d) Tomorrow, he is the church's handyman.

8. Who is Shelly?
(a) Bradley's wife.
(b) Tilden's sister.
(c) Vince's sister.
(d) Vince's girlfriend.

9. Who did Tilden talk to about his lost little baby?
(a) Bradley.
(b) Father Dewis.
(c) Shelly.
(d) Halie.

10. What is the theme of this play?
(a) Openess.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Betrayal.
(d) Trust.

11. How did Halie betray the family?
(a) Covering her head with a blanket..
(b) The promises of the church.
(c) The family's history.
(d) By failing to keep her responsibility's to her husband.

12. Who didn't remember Vince?
(a) Dodge and Tilden.
(b) Bradley and Halie.
(c) Tilden and Bradley.
(d) Halie and Tilden.

13. Who did Shelly try to help with the vegetables from the garden?
(a) Bradley.
(b) Ansel.
(c) Tilden.
(d) Dodge.

14. How long had Vince been gone?
(a) Six years.
(b) Fourteen years.
(c) Eight years.
(d) Three years.

15. Who did Dodge send after a bottle?
(a) Vince.
(b) Shelly.
(c) Father Dewis.
(d) Bradley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who spent their time upstairs?

2. Who did the family fear would be angry about a disorderly house?

3. How was Vince treated when he got to the farm?

4. Who was responsible for the secret in the backyard?

5. What is the dysfunctional theme of this play?

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