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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has recently died?
(a) Charlie's son.
(b) Charlie's mother.
(c) Oliver's father.
(d) Charlie's father.

2. What does Charlie feel keeps him from being successful?
(a) No ambition.
(b) Lack of education.
(c) Memories of Da.
(d) Bad luck.

3. Why did all the boys want to be with Mary?
(a) She really liked to drink beer.
(b) She had a great sense of humor.
(c) There were rumors that she let boys have sex with her.
(d) She loved watching rugby games.

4. Da says that there will be plenty of jobs when ____________ takes over.
(a) Churchill and the British.
(b) Roosevelt and the Americans.
(c) Hitler and the Germans.
(d) Stalin and the Russians.

5. Young Charlie tells Charlie that Mother and Da always _____________ around Drumm.
(a) cried.
(b) laughed.
(c) hesitated.
(d) crawled.

6. Which of the following does Drumm not say about Da?
(a) He's no good.
(b) He's brilliant.
(c) He's small in spirit.
(d) He's stupid.

7. Where was Charlie when his father died?
(a) Dublin.
(b) Manchester.
(c) Bristol.
(d) London.

8. What does Oliver ask Charlie before leaving?
(a) If he wants to play cards.
(b) If he wants to go out for a beer.
(c) If he wants to come over for dinner.
(d) If he can help him get Da's house.

9. To whom is Young Charlie writing a letter?
(a) Priest.
(b) Da.
(c) Friends.
(d) Girlfriend.

10. How did Mother respond to Da's marriage proposal?
(a) She had no say in the matter.
(b) She said yes immediately.
(c) She said she would have to think about it.
(d) She told him no at first.

11. In what country does DA take place?
(a) England.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Wales.
(d) Scotland.

12. Who takes the letter from Young Charlie?
(a) Oliver.
(b) Mother.
(c) Da.
(d) Drumm.

13. What does Mary become in Young Charlie's eyes?
(a) A whore.
(b) A person.
(c) A saint.
(d) A child.

14. The last thing Young Charlie wanted was ______________________.
(a) to fall in love.
(b) to have sex.
(c) to be with a person.
(d) to get engaged.

15. What does Da tell adult Charlie about a particular cliff?
(a) It is called Lover's Leap.
(b) He almost slipped and fell there one time.
(c) A girl fell to her death there when he was a boy.
(d) The devil himself had visited it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Charlie's birth mother work?

2. Which of the following was not a big part of Da's life?

3. Who appears with Charlie at the beginning of Act 1, Part 3?

4. Charlie comments that Young Charlie never _________________.

5. What does Da say will happen to Charlie's birth mother if she ever shows up?

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