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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Meg tell Teresa about Monswer?
(a) He is a strange man.
(b) He is a horrible man.
(c) He is a spy.
(d) He is a great man.

2. About which soldier is the article talking?
(a) A French soldier.
(b) An American soldier.
(c) The British one.
(d) The Irish one.

3. How does the story begin?
(a) Rock and roll music is heard.
(b) A narrator appears.
(c) The actors dance an Irish jig.
(d) The actors walk solemnly onto the stage.

4. Why can neither the Soldier or the Volunteer go?
(a) The Soldier is a prisoner, and the Volunteer is too lazy.
(b) The Soldier is a prisoner, and the Volunteer does not want to take him anywhere.
(c) The Soldier is a prisoner, and the Volunteer is on duty for another hour.
(d) The Soldier is on duty, and the Volunteer is a prisoner.

5. When the Soldier describes their situation as war, about what does Meg speak angrily?
(a) War never ends.
(b) She has always lived during war time.
(c) Her parents were killed during a war.
(d) The innocents whose lives were destroyed by that war.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does the Soldier tease Teresa?

2. What takes place suddenly in this story?

3. What does the Officer not want on the Soldier's conscience?

4. About what is Meg's song?

5. What do the Officer and the Volunteer do as Pat, Meg and Miss Gilchrist sit, drink, sing, and bicker over whether Pat was a good soldier in the cause of the IRA?

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