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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Kate call the people who live in the back hills?
(a) Ignoramuses.
(b) Pagans.
(c) Savages.
(d) Fools.

3. How does Chris heat the iron for their clothes?
(a) In the stove.
(b) On the hearth.
(c) On the radiator.
(d) In the fireplace.

4. What does Chris do that Kate thinks sacrilegious?
(a) She shows her legs when she dances.
(b) She wears the surplice she's been ironing.
(c) She takes the name of the Lord in vain.
(d) She turns the picture of the saints to the wall.

5. What gift does Danny Bradley give Rose for Christmas?
(a) A live rose.
(b) A live fish.
(c) A silver fish.
(d) A silver rose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bernie O'Donnell?

2. What does Kate say is the only thing Gerry Evans does well?

3. How does Gerry Evans get to Ballybeg?

4. What do the Mundy sisters name their radio?

5. What is the "double blessing" Bernie O'Donnell has?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Maggie notice about the pack of cigarettes Kate brought her, and why is it significant?

2. Why do you think young Michael felt unease rather than amusement or joy when his mother and aunts danced?

3. What is the difference between the way Kate dances and the dance of the other sisters?

4. How does Kate explain Uncle Jack's strange behavior?

5. Why does Kate become angry when Rose repeats the idea that twins are a double blessing?

6. What does Maggie recollect about Bernie?

7. What significance does Austin Morgan have in this story?

8. How far do the Mundys live from the rest of the village, and what significance is there in that distance?

9. Why do you think the opening tableau shows Uncle Jack in his "resplendent" uniform, which is out of place in the play's action?

10. Why do you think Rose can describe the Festival of Lughnasa to her sisters?

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