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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 Rose tell Michael he must do to make everything better with Moran?
(a) Michael must work on the farm for free.
(b) Michael must give up drinking for good.
(c) Michael must bring Luke home from London.
(d) Michael must apologize to Moran.

2. Who else in the family also advocated for Maggie to leave and train as a nurse?
(a) McQuaid.
(b) Luke.
(c) Sheila.
(d) Mona.

3. What is the relationship between Maggie and Mark O'Donoghue?
(a) They are co-workers and have never gotten along.
(b) They are strangers.
(c) They are former lovers and now friends.
(d) They are secretly engaged.

4. How does Rose respond when Moran tells her that the family managed well enough before she came?
(a) She gets and frustrated and explains all the good she has done.
(b) She suffers in silence and says nothing.
(c) She tells Moran she will have to go away from there.
(d) She slaps Moran and demands and apology.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maggie report about Luke?

2. What does Mark O'Donoghue do for work in London?

3. Sheila and Mona send a note to Moran and Rose telling them that Michael is where?

4. What does Sheila question Moran about in Section 6 that makes Moran very defensive?

5. What does Moran eye during the fight that makes Michael nervous?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Maggie's life changed by Rose becoming part of the family?

2. How does Moran respond when he is questioned about threatening Michael with his gun?

3. Why does Moran make the entire family join him in the ritual of the Rosary?

4. What do Moran and Rose think when Michael isn't present for the Rosary?

5. What does Mark do that Moran finds ludicrous?

6. What begins to happen to Moran physically after Maggie brings home her newborn son?

7. What causes Moran to become more and more morose throughout Section 4?

8. Why is Maggie so confident when she leaves for London?

9. What bad habits does Michael engage in once all his sisters leave the house?

10. In Section 5, what fills the house with joy?

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