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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 is Wild Woodbine?
(a) Perfume.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Medicine.
2. What unusual stage convention involves the boy Michael?
(a) The boy Michael is silent.
(b) The boy Michael is invisible, and his lines are said by adult Michael.
(c) The boy Michael is played by an adult.
(d) The boy Michael narrates the play.
3. Why does Kate object to going to the harvest dance?
(a) People will laugh at women their age dancing.
(b) People will laugh because they are awkward dancers.
(c) People will laugh at their clothes.
(d) People will laugh because they have no husbands.
4. What is Michael building in the yard?
(a) A treehouse.
(b) A fort.
(c) A birdhouse.
(d) Kites.
5. What language has Uncle Jack been speaking for twenty-five years?
(a) Swahili.
(b) Gaelic.
(c) Ugandan.
(d) English.
Short Answer Questions
1. What shame does Chris bring on the family years before?
2. What do the Mundy sisters name their radio?
3. Who is the joker of the Mundy family?
4. Who is Okawa?
5. Why does Rose dance in wellingtons?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Agnes mean when she asks Chris, "Do you want to make a pagan of yourself?"
2. Why do you think the parish priest doesn't want to look Kate in the eye since Uncle Jack came home?
3. For what is the fox in the hen house a metaphor?
4. How has Uncle Jack brought status to the Mundy family?
5. Why does Kate become angry when Rose repeats the idea that twins are a double blessing?
6. What do you think Michael means when he talks of a widening breach between what seemed to be and what was?
7. What does Maggie recollect about Bernie?
8. When Irish music comes from the radio, which of the sisters begins to dance first, and in what mood does she dance?
9. Why do you think the playwright chose to have adult Michael speak the lines of child Michael instead of having two actors?
10. What is significant about the names Nora and Nina that Bernie O'Donnell gave to her twin daughters?
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