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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Michael flee to find refuge?
(a) To New York to wait for Nell to return.
(b) To the bar so that he can drink until he forgets his problems.
(c) To Dublin to be with his sisters.
(d) To the cemetery where his real mother is buried.

2. How does Maggie fill her time since she no longer has household chores to do?
(a) Studies for her nursing exams.
(b) Goes out at night to dances.
(c) Listens to the radio.
(d) Explores the farm.

3. Where does Mark go every night to "escape" when he is staying at Great Meadow?
(a) His car.
(b) The pub.
(c) Maggie's bedroom.
(d) The barn.

4. What word best describes how Moran feels about Rose going out?
(a) Scared.
(b) Angry.
(c) Happy.
(d) Threatened.

5. As Moran seems to lose his spark for life, what is it that he mentions he feels betrayed by?
(a) His two sons who left him.
(b) Rose who seems to like his children more than him.
(c) How fast the years have gone by.
(d) How boring life has been after the war.

6. After taking their final exams, where do Mona and Sheila leave to?
(a) New York.
(b) London.
(c) Hong Kong.
(d) Dublin.

7. What does Sheila desperately want to study, but Moran will not allow it?
(a) Accounting.
(b) Law.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Teaching.

8. Where does Moran begin spending much more time after Mark and Maggie's visit?
(a) His bed.
(b) The pub.
(c) His porch.
(d) The church.

9. What does Mark O'Donoghue do for work in London?
(a) He is unemployed.
(b) He is a construction worker.
(c) He is an accountant.
(d) He is a police officer.

10. What does Moran do when he catches Michael coming home late one night?
(a) Bans Michael from Great Meadow.
(b) Hits him with a dictionary.
(c) Yells at him until morning.
(d) Strikes him around the head.

11. Moran writes to Luke asking him to do what?
(a) Come home.
(b) Meet Maggie in London.
(c) Send money to the family.
(d) Allow Maggie to live with him.

12. What chore does Moran gather the children to do?
(a) Clean all the windows.
(b) Pick the fruit from the trees.
(c) Wash the dishes.
(d) Mow and gather the hay.

13. Where do Nell and Michael make love?
(a) In the back seat of the car.
(b) At Great Meadows.
(c) At Nell's apartment.
(d) In the sand dunes.

14. When is the only time that Moran is seemingly happy?
(a) When he is alone.
(b) When his children do well on their exams.
(c) During the Rosary.
(d) During harvest season.

15. What does Young Michael tend to?
(a) Rose's flower garden.
(b) The family pet.
(c) The household chores.
(d) The farm animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. That winter what announcement does Sheila make?

2. What do the children tend to do when Moran gets angry?

3. What does Moran want to do when Michael returns?

4. What does Michael borrow from Nell?

5. Who else in the family also advocated for Maggie to leave and train as a nurse?

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