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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Miss Gilchrist takes a drink to the Soldier, what does the Volunteer do?
(a) He tells her to stay away from him.
(b) He warns her to sit down and Pat says neither she nor Meg has the right to comment on his situation.
(c) He warns her to not get attached to the Soldier.
(d) He tells her to give him the drink instead.

2. What does the Soldier wonder about Teresa?
(a) Why she is here.
(b) Whether she will bring him the tea.
(c) Where she is from.
(d) Whether she will bring him his dinner.

3. What does Teresa do after the Officer and Pat go outside?
(a) She comes from behind the door.
(b) She comes out from under the bed.
(c) She comes out of the closet.
(d) She comes in through the window.

4. Of what does Pat tell the Soldier he has no reason to fear?
(a) Suffering.
(b) Being killed.
(c) Being tortured.
(d) Dying.

5. What does Teresa do as Pat sits on the bed?
(a) She gasps from behind the door.
(b) She yells as the mattress sinks onto her.
(c) She peaks through the window.
(d) She giggles from the closet.

6. How do the others respond when the Soldier asks whether any of the others would let him free?
(a) No one will free him.
(b) Teresa, alone, said she would free him.
(c) Everyone says they would free him.
(d) No one responds.

7. When Monsewer comes in with Pat, what are they discussing?
(a) How badly he played but that his playing will be better in the morning.
(b) How well he plays the badpipes.
(c) When he will play the bagpipes again.
(d) What is for dinner.

8. As the parade passes, what does Miss Gilchrist do to the Soldier?
(a) She glares at him.
(b) She prays for him.
(c) She reads an article from a British paper to him.
(d) She asks if he would like to watch the parade.

9. As Meg makes crude jokes, what does Miss Gilchrist say?
(a) She needs to leave.
(b) She should be quiet.
(c) She would be smarter to spend her time cleaning her house instead of joking.
(d) She is rude and annoying.

10. About whom is the article?
(a) The military.
(b) The King.
(c) The Queen.
(d) The IRA.

11. What do the other characters do as the Officer is thinking?
(a) They rush onstage to watch the parade.
(b) They also think.
(c) They watch him think.
(d) They ask him questions.

12. Why is the Irish prisoner in jail?
(a) He shot a British police officer.
(b) He was acting as a spy.
(c) He did nothing.
(d) He stole from the British government.

13. How old is the Soldier?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Nineteen.

14. About what is Meg's song?
(a) Irish rebels being attacked by the British in the way the Germans in World War II attacked the French.
(b) Love and compassion.
(c) Regret and loneliness.
(d) Peace between the Irish and British.

15. Describe the song the Soldier sings.
(a) It is an old Irish tune.
(b) It is a song he wrote.
(c) It is an ironic one about how happy he is to be British.
(d) It is an American rock and roll song.

Short Answer Questions

1. What crude comment does Meg make to Miss Gilchrist?

2. What does the Soldier say he has done wrong?

3. What does the Soldier say about the members of the British Parliament?

4. About what does Meg taunt Pat?

5. What does the Officer think Meg is there to do?

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