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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play Four, Ties That Bind.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What arrangement does Jeremiah make with Patrick in Play Four for payment of Patrick's debts?
(a) Jeremiah takes half the Rowen land, not all of it.
(b) Jeremiah accepts Patrick's slaves as payment in full.
(c) Patrick must sharecrop the land he once owns.
(d) Jeremiah pays the debts in full for Patrick.

2. In Play Two, The Courtship of Morning Star, what does Rowen plan to do if Morning Star has a girl instead of a boy when she delivers the baby she is expecting?
(a) Leave the baby girl on a mountain to die.
(b) Celebrate the girl's birth with a big party.
(c) Send the child to live with the Indians.
(d) Sell the child as an indentured servant.

3. What secret does Jeremiah reveal at the end of Play Four, Ties That Bind?
(a) He is Joe Talbert's son getting revenge for his pa's murder.
(b) He is building a new bank to replace the failed one.
(c) He is a Rowen.
(d) He is Patrick's half brother.

4. When Patrick Rowen tells his father he wants to marry Rebecca Talbert, how does Michael Rowen react?
(a) He gives Patrick his blessing.
(b) He tells Star to get a preacher to conduct the wedding.
(c) He says he wants Rebecca for himself.
(d) He disapproves and refuses to give Patrick land.

5. How long after the first play does the second play, The Courtship of Morning Star, take place?
(a) One hundred years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Twenty-five years.
(d) One year.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Play Two, The Courtship of Morning Star, what does Michael Rowen claim he does when he is just seven years old?

2. If Patrick Rowen scratches his head before sending Zeke and Zach to the house during the court's visit, what are Zeke and Zach to do?

3. In Play Four, to whom does Patrick Rowen owe money now that his bank folds?

4. What is Zeke's relationship to Zach in Play Four, Ties that Bind?

5. What happens to Joe Talbert, Star's lover, at the end of Play Three, The Homecoming?

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