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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kate say the radio has done to the country?
(a) Encouraged rowdiness.
(b) Destroyed family togetherness.
(c) Killed Christian conversation.
(d) Helped people have fun.

2. What bad news does Chris have from Vera McLaughlin?
(a) The sisters will have to pay for their own wool.
(b) Vera McLaughlin won't pay as much for hand-made gloves.
(c) Vera McLaughlin won't be buying more hand-made gloves.
(d) Vera McLaughlin is dissatisfied with the sisters' knitting.

3. What popular song does Gerry Evans dance to with the sisters in Act 2?
(a) Anything Goes.
(b) Pennsylvania 6-5000.
(c) Dancing in the Dark.
(d) String of Pearls.

4. How does Chris earn her living after Uncle Jack dies?
(a) She opens a dressmaker's shop.
(b) Knitting at home.
(c) She opens a dancing school.
(d) In the knitting factory.

5. What does Chris think is wrong with the radio?
(a) It's old.
(b) It's possessed.
(c) It's broken.
(d) It's improperly wired.

6. Why does Kate think Agnes and Rose did not apply to work in the knitting factory?
(a) Agnes was too notionate to work in a factory.
(b) The sisters could not read the instructions.
(c) The sisters were not in robust health.
(d) The sisters had no transportation to the factory.

7. When does Michael get a letter from another Michael Evans?
(a) In 1960.
(b) In the mid-fifties.
(c) In the mid-thirties.
(d) In the mid-forties.

8. What is the result of Gerry Evans' war injury?
(a) He is paralyzed.
(b) He is unable to dance.
(c) He is unable to walk.
(d) He is unable to work.

9. What does Maggie forget at the end of the play?
(a) The recipe for Eggs Ballybeg.
(b) The steps to a dance.
(c) The answer to a riddle.
(d) The words to a song.

10. Why does Michael say the characters dance with their eyes half closed?
(a) Closing their eyes helps them to listen better.
(b) To open their eyes would break the spell.
(c) The music bores them.
(d) The music makes them sleepy.

11. What phrase comforts Kate when she thinks of Uncle Jack's pagan worship?
(a) "His own ecumenical understanding."
(b) "His own way of looking at the world."
(c) "His way of bringing the world together."
(d) "His own distinctive spiritual search."

12. What skill does Gerry Evans have that the army wanted?
(a) He can make explosives.
(b) He can speak Spanish.
(c) He can ride a motor bike.
(d) He can fire a cannon.

13. What does Gerry Evans seem to be able to do that no one else in the family can?
(a) Fix the radio.
(b) Teach Michael to dance.
(c) Fix a meal with only three eggs.
(d) Earn a living.

14. Why does Rose laugh at Agnes while they are picking berries?
(a) Agnes gets wet in the stream.
(b) Agnes falls into the bushes.
(c) Agnes tells her a joke.
(d) Agnes makes faces at her.

15. Why does Gerry Evans say he is going to Spain?
(a) To earn a living for his family.
(b) To fight to preserve the union.
(c) To fight for democracy.
(d) It's somewhere to go.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michael say is found in dancing?

2. Which sister is dead when Michael finds them?

3. What does Michael say haunts his memory of the thirties?

4. How is Gerry Evans wounded in Spain?

5. How long does it take Michael to find Agnes and Rose?

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