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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maggie admire about Brian McGuinness?
(a) His straight nose and muscular shoulders.
(b) His military bearing.
(c) His blue eyes and curly hair.
(d) His white hands and long eyelashes.

2. What is Kate's nickname at school?
(a) The turkey.
(b) The mother hen.
(c) The gander.
(d) The goose.

3. Who first proposes that the sisters go to the harvest dance?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Kate.
(c) Agnes.
(d) Rose.

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

5. How does Gerry Evans get to Ballybeg?
(a) Gerry Evans walks.
(b) Gerry Evans buys a car.
(c) Gerry Evans buys a bicycle.
(d) Gerry Evans gets a ride from a man he meets in a bar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rose dance in wellingtons?

2. Who is the joker of the Mundy family?

3. What does Gerry Evans see at the Mundy house that he says is a bad omen?

4. What does Chris want Michael to believe about his father?

5. What does Chris do that Kate thinks sacrilegious?

(see the answer key)

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