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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Vince treated when he got to the farm?
(a) No one knew him.
(b) They had a "fatten calf" celebration.
(c) Dodge greeted him with a loving hug.
(d) Halie cried in joy.

2. Who was a Catholic bride?
(a) Father Dewis's wife.
(b) Dodge's girfriend.
(c) Bradley's wife.
(d) Ansel's wife.

3. The children reflects what in this play?
(a) The happieness found in Illinois.
(b) Their hunger for vegetables.
(c) How much they miss Ansel.
(d) The brokeness of the family structure.

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

5. What does Sam Shepherd's believe America has lost touch with?
(a) The farm in New Mexico.
(b) The tools to work the agrden.
(c) Their aspirations.
(d) The vegetable garden.

6. What did Tilden tell Shelly about the baby?
(a) It could be held with one hand, it was so small noone could find it.
(b) Halie cried when she saw it's face.
(c) It brought joy to the family.
(d) The lose of the baby tore the family apart.

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

8. Where did Dodge send Vince?
(a) Flowers for Halie.
(b) To get vegetables of Tilden.
(c) To get a bottle of whiskey.
(d) Flowers for Shelly

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

10. What is the dysfunctional theme of this play?
(a) A brother and a sister.
(b) A father and his daughter.
(c) The incest between a mother and her son.
(d) A priest and Shelly.

11. What did Vince do to try to be remembered?
(a) Cut Dodge's hair.
(b) Played the tricks he used to do as a child.
(c) Picked vegetables from the yard.
(d) Met with Father Dewis.

12. Who does Sam Shepherd place most of the blame for this family's failure?
(a) Shelly and Father Dewis because they interferred with the family structure.
(b) The two brothers, Tilden and Bradley.
(c) Ancel because he died leaving he family broken and grieving.
(d) The mother and father, Halile and Dodge.

13. What vegetables did Tilden pick from the garden?
(a) Cabbages.
(b) Peas and potatoes.
(c) Carrots.
(d) Turnips.

14. Shelly tries to get Vince to leave even though she feels for who?
(a) Tilden.
(b) Ansel.
(c) Bradley.
(d) Dodge.

15. Who had the incestuous relationship?
(a) Tilden and Halie.
(b) Father Dewis and Shelly.
(c) Bradley and Halie.
(d) Ansel and Halie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What relation is Halie to Shelly?

2. Who was not recognized after a six year absence?

3. What two characters are introduced in this act?

4. How did Halie betray the family?

5. What does Tilden talk to Shelly about?

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