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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. Whose arrival throws the Mundy household into turmoil?
(a) Michael.
(b) Bernie O'Donnell.
(c) Uncle Jack.
(d) Gerry Evans.
2. How does Gerry Evans react when Chris tells him the family is watching them?
(a) "Shame on them!"
(b) "Let's get out of sight!"
(c) "They're just jealous!"
(d) "Better still!"
3. Who first proposes that the sisters go to the harvest dance?
(a) Rose.
(b) Kate.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Agnes.
4. What happens to the Sweeney boy at Lughnasa?
(a) He was sent home for being too young.
(b) He caught fire.
(c) He was ridiculed.
(d) He was burned in effigy.
5. To what tune do Gerry Evans and Chris dance?
(a) Pennsylvania 6-5000.
(b) String of Pearls.
(c) Some Enchanted Evening.
(d) Dancing in the Dark.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Gerry Evans get to Ballybeg?
2. Why does Maggie worry when Michael can't be seen?
3. What worries Kate most about losing her job?
4. Where has Uncle Jack been when the story opens?
5. What is the first thing the Mundys listen to on the radio?
Short Essay Questions
1. After Agnes blows Michael a kiss, she says it was the wrong thing to do. Why would it be the wrong thing to do?
2. How has Uncle Jack brought status to the Mundy family?
3. Why do you think the playwright chose to have adult Michael speak the lines of child Michael instead of having two actors?
4. Why do you think Rose can describe the Festival of Lughnasa to her sisters?
5. What does Chris wear during the sisters' dancing that upsets Kate?
6. What is Maggie's reaction to hearing that her old friend Bernie O'Donnell is in town, and why does she react this way?
7. Why do you think the parish priest doesn't want to look Kate in the eye since Uncle Jack came home?
8. Why does Chris call Danny Bradley a bastard?
9. When Irish music comes from the radio, which of the sisters begins to dance first, and in what mood does she dance?
10. What is significant about the names Nora and Nina that Bernie O'Donnell gave to her twin daughters?
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