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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is this person playing the bagpipes?
(a) She is a professional bagpipe player.
(b) She is practicing to play a lament for a young member of the IRA who is to be executed the following morning.
(c) He is practicing to play a lament for a young member of the IRA who is to be executed the following morning.
(d) He is a professional bagpipe player.

2. How does Meg act towards Miss Gilchrist, when trying to get her to leave?
(a) She swears and speaks crudely.
(b) She screams at her.
(c) She forcefully pushes her out.
(d) She ignores her.

3. About what else do Meg and Pat argue?
(a) Whether Meg has any right to argue because she's too young to remember the IRA's first battles in the early 1900's.
(b) Pat's missing leg.
(c) Pat's ability to deal with the Soldier.
(d) Whether Meg should know many details about the arrival of this prisoner.

4. Pat has a long history of disagreements with whom?
(a) The English.
(b) The police.
(c) The French.
(d) The IRA leadership.

5. When the sailor shows a handful of notes, what do Meg and Pat comment?
(a) Money is the best religion and the best form of politics.
(b) They do not want his dirty money.
(c) No amount of money can persuade them.
(d) Money means nothing when one is a Communist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who speaks angrily to the characters?

2. What ironic comment does Pat make, regarding what Monsewar has told him?

3. Why are they both captured and held hostage?

4. What does Monsewer think about everyone who lives in the house?

5. What does Pat promise to sing?

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