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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Michael say language surrenders to in music?
(a) Community.
(b) Memory.
(c) Rhythm.
(d) Movement.

2. What happened to Rose's pet rooster?
(a) Maggie killed it.
(b) It died mysteriously.
(c) Rose killed it.
(d) The fox killed it.

3. Why does Rose laugh at Agnes while they are picking berries?
(a) Agnes tells her a joke.
(b) Agnes gets wet in the stream.
(c) Agnes falls into the bushes.
(d) Agnes makes faces at her.

4. When does Gerry Evans stop visiting the Mundys?
(a) Before 1939.
(b) After 1950.
(c) In 1936.
(d) During World War II.

5. What popular song does Gerry Evans dance to with the sisters in Act 2?
(a) Anything Goes.
(b) Dancing in the Dark.
(c) Pennsylvania 6-5000.
(d) String of Pearls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michael say the characters in the play respond to more than the beat of the music?

2. Where does the other Michael Evans live?

3. Who is Gerry Evans imitating when he leaves Ballybeg?

4. What does Gerry Evans say they need to check if the aerial is all right but the radio still won't work?

5. How does Chris feel about her job?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Kate believe Agnes could not work in a factory?

2. There are important facts about the Spanish Civil War that Gerry Evans does not understand. One is that the Popular Front represents a Fascist, rather than a Republican, government. The other is that the Popular Front is anti-Catholic. How is this ignorance on his part ironic?

3. What has changed about Rose's appearance when she comes home from her meeting with Danny Bradley?

4. How does Rose trick Agnes and get away from her?

5. What is it that Kate asks Uncle Jack to promise?

6. How is the Ryangan harvest festival described by Uncle Jack similar to the festival of Lughansa?

7. What significance do you make of the fact that the recruiter who enlists Gerry Evans in the war effort is, unnoticed by Gerry Evans until after he is writing his name, a midget?

8. How did Michael behave as his father, Gerry Evans, had done?

9. Why might Agnes have believed Rose could not get work in the factory?

10. When Uncle Jack hears wedding bells, he asks if it is one of his sisters who is getting married. Who is actually marrying?

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