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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What feeling does the radio create in Michael?
(a) Relaxation.
(b) Jubilation.
(c) Unease.
(d) Terror.

2. How does Jack feel about the Ballybeg climate?
(a) It's perfect.
(b) It's a relief.
(c) It's hot.
(d) It's cold.

3. What infuriates Agnes about Kate?
(a) Kate judges Gerry Evans.
(b) Kate is a gossip.
(c) Kate doesn't care about Michael.
(d) Kate doesn't care about Chris's feelings.

4. What do the back hills people do to celebrate Lughnasa?
(a) Cook around a bonfire.
(b) Drive their cattle through a bonfire.
(c) Run through a bonfire.
(d) Burn the British in effigy in a bonfire.

5. How many pairs of gloves must the sisters produce this week?
(a) Six.
(b) One dozen.
(c) Two dozen.
(d) Sixty.

6. Which of the sisters is first to stop work and dance to the radio music?
(a) Rose.
(b) Maggie.
(c) Agnes.
(d) Chris.

7. How does Gerry Evans get to Ballybeg?
(a) Gerry Evans gets a ride from a man he meets in a bar.
(b) Gerry Evans buys a car.
(c) Gerry Evans walks.
(d) Gerry Evans buys a bicycle.

8. Which of the sisters refuses to watch Chris dancing with Gerry Evans?
(a) Kate.
(b) Rose.
(c) Agnes.
(d) Maggie.

9. What is the "double blessing" Bernie O'Donnell has?
(a) Citizenship in two countries.
(b) Twice as much money.
(c) Twin girls.
(d) Twin boys.

10. Who is Lugh?
(a) The mother of the Mundy family.
(b) The neighbor who helps the Mundy family.
(c) The Celtic god of harvest.
(d) The sister who is cognitively impaired.

11. What does Gerry Evans see at the Mundy house that he says is a bad omen?
(a) A black cat.
(b) A vulture.
(c) A crow.
(d) A magpie.

12. What shame does Chris bring on the family years before?
(a) She has fought for the British.
(b) She has stolen food for the family.
(c) She has married a Briton.
(d) She has Michael out of wedlock.

13. What does Chris do that Kate thinks sacrilegious?
(a) She shows her legs when she dances.
(b) She turns the picture of the saints to the wall.
(c) She takes the name of the Lord in vain.
(d) She wears the surplice she's been ironing.

14. How does Kate think children should be named?
(a) With the names of movie stars.
(b) With the names of Celtic gods and goddesses.
(c) With the names of grandparents.
(d) With the names of Catholic saints.

15. What do the Mundy sisters name their radio?
(a) Lugh.
(b) Gerry.
(c) Danny.
(d) Marconi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bernie O'Donnell?

2. What does Chris hear that Gerry Evans is doing in Dublin?

3. What is Michael building in the yard?

4. Whose arrival throws the Mundy household into turmoil?

5. What is the name of the village where the Mundys live?

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