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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what terms does Young Charlie no longer view Mary?
(a) The love of his life.
(b) A chaste girl.
(c) Just someone to have sex with.
(d) The most beautiful girl he's ever seen.

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

4. What does Mary tell Young Charlie after Da leaves?
(a) He's senile.
(b) He's a great guy.
(c) He's nosy.
(d) He's an idiot.

5. In the first memory of Act 1, Part 4 what childhood memory does Charlie have?
(a) Playing pool with Da.
(b) Playing cards with Da.
(c) Walking with Da.
(d) Raking leaves with Da.

6. What does Charlie call Oliver after Oliver leaves?
(a) Vulture.
(b) Scum.
(c) Saint.
(d) Idiot.

7. Where does Charlie's birth mother work?
(a) At the lighthouse.
(b) At a factory.
(c) At the school.
(d) At a cafe.

8. What had Drumm given Da a couple of weeks before Da died?
(a) Watch.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Money.
(d) Whiskey.

9. Who is Charlie's younger self in the play?
(a) Charlie Jr.
(b) Young Charlie.
(c) Chip.
(d) Chuckie.

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

11. Da appears and says that if there were room in his grave, he would _____________________.
(a) dance.
(b) roll over in it.
(c) play solitaire.
(d) juggle.

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

13. Da reappears and talks about the funeral and _________________.
(a) the weather.
(b) Charlie's suit.
(c) the Prime Minister.
(d) the neighbors.

14. Why does Mother not like Young Charlie's letter?
(a) The language is insincere.
(b) It is too short.
(c) The language is too extravagant.
(d) It is too long.

15. What does Charlie tell Da about Mary?
(a) He wanted to marry her.
(b) She was the oldest of ten children.
(c) She was a straight-A student.
(d) Every boy in school wanted to be with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Da say when Charlie tells him he loves him?

2. What cannot be said about Da after this scene with Mary?

3. What does Mother explain to Young Charlie about her life?

4. What is the theme of DA as dramatized in Act 1, Part 1?

5. Which of the following does Drumm not say about Da?

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