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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Michael say language surrenders to in music?
(a) Rhythm.
(b) Memory.
(c) Movement.
(d) Community.

2. When Uncle Jack speaks of Uganda, what does he call it?
(a) Home.
(b) Africa.
(c) The colony.
(d) The community.

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

4. What does Gerry Evans offer Chris during each annual visit?
(a) Marriage.
(b) A new bike.
(c) A dance.
(d) A dinner out.

5. How does Uncle Jack feel about multiple wives for one husband?
(a) "I'm completely in favor of it."
(b) "I'm getting used to it."
(c) "I'm completely against it."
(d) "I'm not sure that I'm against it."

6. What does dancing become in Michael's memory?
(a) A daydream.
(b) A form of exercise.
(c) A lost art.
(d) A wordless ceremony.

7. What does Michael say is found in dancing?
(a) Untapped emotions.
(b) Strong and unrecognized feelings.
(c) Unity and community.
(d) The heart of life and all its hopes.

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

9. What does Uncle Jack remember the children had with scones but never with soda bread?
(a) Bilberry jam.
(b) Butter.
(c) Tea.
(d) Apples.

10. Why does Rose say she has to leave the berry picking early?
(a) She says she is sleepy.
(b) She says she has an appointment.
(c) She says she is sick.
(d) She says she has to go to town.

11. When does Gerry Evans stop visiting the Mundys?
(a) Before 1939.
(b) In 1936.
(c) During World War II.
(d) After 1950.

12. How does Maggie feel about Michael's kites?
(a) She is proud of them.
(b) She hates them.
(c) She is amused by them.
(d) She loves them.

13. What does Uncle Jack think is good about the multiple-wife system?
(a) It prevents jealousy and spite.
(b) There are no spinsters.
(c) There are more children.
(d) Everybody helps everybody else.

14. What does Michael say the characters in the play respond to more than the beat of the music?
(a) The enchantment of the music.
(b) The mood of the music.
(c) The lyrics of the music.
(d) The sweetness of the music.

15. Where does Gerry Evans hide when Agnes comes back from picking blackberries?
(a) In the bushes in front of the house.
(b) Under the table.
(c) Behind the door.
(d) On top of the sycamore tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Agnes and Rose tell the family not to do?

2. How old is Michael when he receives the letter from the other Michael Evans?

3. Why is Kate offended at Uncle Jack's talk of multiple wives?

4. Why does Michael think Agnes and Rose did not apply to work in the knitting factory?

5. What has Michael painted on the kites?

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