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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Yolland walk home along every day?
(a) Bun na hAbhann.
(b) Maire hAbhann.
(c) Tra Bhan.
(d) Mullach.

2. What does Lancey say the army will do is Yolland is not found within 48 hours?
(a) Level the church.
(b) Burn the crops.
(c) Level every house.
(d) Shoot the livestock.

3. In Act 3, what does Manus suggest Owen bake for his father?
(a) Cookies.
(b) Crumpets.
(c) Lamb.
(d) Soda bread.

4. What does Doalty tell Owen to translate for Lancey in Act 3?
(a) That the church is on fire.
(b) That the camp is on fire.
(c) That the potato blight has arrived.
(d) That the soldiers are leaving.

5. Maire tells Yolland she sees himself washing every day in front of what?
(a) His tent.
(b) Her house.
(c) The fields.
(d) The castle.

6. What does Owen say that The Murren is named after in Act 3?
(a) Saint Muranus.
(b) Saint Mary.
(c) Saint Murray.
(d) Saint Murren.

7. How much later is Act 3 than Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) The next week.
(b) The next month.
(c) The next evening.
(d) The next year.

8. Who does Owen say he's going out to see in Act 3?
(a) Doalty.
(b) Jimmy.
(c) Yolland.
(d) Manus.

9. Where does Maire comment that she hopes there's no hay to be saved in Act 3?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Bombay.
(c) London.
(d) Kentucky.

10. What word does Maire say initially in English when speaking to Yolland in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) River.
(b) Water.
(c) Sea.
(d) House.

11. What is the name of the small village from which Yolland's mother is actually from?
(a) Little Wellington.
(b) Little Norwolk.
(c) Little Walsingham.
(d) Little Seashire.

12. Maire's aunt who taught her the one line of English she knows?
(a) Mary.
(b) Nellie.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Gilliam.

13. Who does Jimmy ask to be his best man in Act 3?
(a) Owen.
(b) Doalty.
(c) Manus.
(d) Hugh.

14. How much time passes between Act 2, Scene 1 and Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) A day.
(b) A year.
(c) A month.
(d) Three days.

15. Maire tells Yolland in Act 2, Scene 2, "Listen to me. I want you too, ____."
(a) Michael.
(b) Yolland.
(c) Soldier.
(d) George.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the soldiers demolish while searching for Yolland in Act 3?

2. What does Yolland say he is doing because of Maire in Act 2, Scene 2?

3. What does Hugh tell Maire he will teach her in the end of the play?

4. What does Maire do in Act 2, Scene 2 when she says "Lag"?

5. Who came out of his house in his underwear shouting at the soldiers, "You hoors you!" in Act 3?

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