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Fences Intro
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1
Lyons is not:
Older than Cory
The son of Rose and Troy
More about the lifestyle of music than in getting better
A musician
2
What happens on Friday nights in the play?
Troy is out partying
Rose and Troy eat out instead of eating at home
Cory stays out late with his high school friends
Troy and Bono hang out in the back yard
3
Troy is all of the following except:
Protagonist of the story
Sanitation worker
Former MLB player
Former Negro League star
4
Bono is all of the following except:
A follower
Sanitation worker
A friend of Troy for more than 30 years
Secretly in love with Rose
5
Which of the following is not true about Rose?
She is more of a realist than Troy
She is involved in her church
She can be a selfish person
She is the wife of Troy
6
I told you that the universal stems from _________
always seeking and striving to learn
asking different people
a deep understanding of our world
the specific
7
Gabriel is not:
Troy's brother
A baseball player
Different after a head injury
A war veteran
8
Who is Mr. Rand?
The boss of Troy and Bono
Football recruit for Cory
A friend of the Maxson household
A musician hanging with Lyons
9
Maxson is an amalgamation of ________
The Mason-Dixon line
His max effort with his son
It's not an amalgamation
10
What is Taylor's?
A store
A place people can play checkers
Place Troy can listen to baseball games
An abandoned lot
11
Which of the following is not true for Cory?
He is the son of Troy
He plays football
He is disrespectful to his parents
He is the son of Rose
12
How old is Troy when the play opens?
65
53
18
38
13
In the opening pages we find out that Troy is:
Crude and vulgar
Trying out for an MLB team
Writing a memoir
Challenging racism at his work
14
What year does the play begin?
1912
1973
1957
1940
15
What happened to August Wilson when he was 16?
Nothing important happened when he was 16
Wrote his first of many plays
Graduated early from high school
Accused of plagiarism for such a sophisticated paper
16
What city was August Wilson born and raised in?
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Miami
San Diego
17
August Wilson wrote a play ________?
For each decade of the 1900s
For his mother
He did?!
To commemorate his personal history
18
Where did Troy and Bono meet?
Baseball fields
Jail
When Troy was a kid still in the South
Through Rose
19
The play is intentionally set the year Hank Aaron _______
Entered baseball
Was born
Was inducted into the Hall of Fame
Led his team to the World Series
20
Where do Troy and Bono meet Alberta?
The church with Rose
It's never explicitly stated
Baseball game
At Taylor's