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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does McQuaid drink instead of the tea the girls make?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Water.

2. How do the girls react when McQuaid inquires about Luke?
(a) They get angry.
(b) They get tense.
(c) They are excited to share.
(d) They don't know who Luke is.

3. When McQuaid leaves he says, "Some people can not bear to come in second", to whom is he referring?
(a) Rose.
(b) Moran.
(c) Sheila.
(d) Maggie.

4. What rumor does McQuaid bring up about Moran?
(a) Moran is planning to move.
(b) Moran is courting again.
(c) Moran is dying.
(d) Moran is bankrupt.

5. What term is used to describe the rumors floating around about Moran?
(a) "Hushed secrets".
(b) "Eloborate tales".
(c) "Dark mutterings".
(d) "False assumptions".

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the farm that Moran and Rose live on?

2. Which word best expresses Moran's feelings towards how the independent Ireland turned out?

3. How does Moran know McQuaid?

4. What kind of car does McQuaid drive?

5. Moran has a hatred and fear of what two things?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Moran feel about marrying Rose?

2. Explain Rose's role in the Moran family.

3. Why is Moran angry that more than half his children left Ireland to work in England?

4. Why is it important that Moran's aging and increasing weakness is foreshadowed in Section 1 of the book?

5. What conclusion does Moran come to about Rose Brady?

6. What is Rose Brady's background prior to meeting Moran?

7. How does McQuaid compliment Moran's daughters during his visit?

8. What makes the girls tense when Moran and McQuaid are talking?

9. Why does Rose stop going to the evening mail group?

10. How does Moran justify his resentment towards McQuaid?

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