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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the back hills people do to celebrate Lughnasa?
(a) Drive their cattle through a bonfire.
(b) Burn the British in effigy in a bonfire.
(c) Cook around a bonfire.
(d) Run through a bonfire.

2. What is the first thing the Mundys listen to on the radio?
(a) British news.
(b) Irish dance music.
(c) British dance music.
(d) Irish news.

3. What is the name of the village where the Mundys live?
(a) Abyssinia.
(b) Ryanga.
(c) Ballybeg.
(d) Donegal.

4. Why does Kate object to going to the harvest dance?
(a) People will laugh because they are awkward dancers.
(b) People will laugh because they have no husbands.
(c) People will laugh at their clothes.
(d) People will laugh at women their age dancing.

5. How many pairs of gloves must the sisters produce this week?
(a) Two dozen.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Six.
(d) One dozen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maggie like to ask Michael?

2. Why do the sisters stop dancing?

3. What is the population of Balleybeg looking forward to?

4. What does Gerry Evans think the radio is when he hears it?

5. What does Maggie call Michael?

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