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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. Which of the sisters dances alone?
(a) Kate.
(b) Maggie.
(c) Agnes.
(d) Rose.

2. What is the "double blessing" Bernie O'Donnell has?
(a) Twin girls.
(b) Twice as much money.
(c) Citizenship in two countries.
(d) Twin boys.

3. Why do Maggie and Chris object to Rose seeing Danny Bradley?
(a) He's a drunk.
(b) He's a liar.
(c) He's married.
(d) He's handsome and they're jealous.

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

5. Why does Rose dance in wellingtons?
(a) She has no other shoes.
(b) The wellingtons are more comfortable.
(c) Her other shoes are for Sunday.
(d) She can't get the wellingtons off.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chris hear that Gerry Evans is doing in Dublin?

2. What superstition does Maggie believe?

3. What gift does Danny Bradley give Rose for Christmas?

4. Why does the parish priest tell Kate she may lose her teaching job?

5. What does Gerry Evans see on the way to the Mundy house that he thinks is a good omen?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. After Agnes blows Michael a kiss, she says it was the wrong thing to do. Why would it be the wrong thing to do?

3. What does Agnes mean when she asks Chris, "Do you want to make a pagan of yourself?"

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

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

6. Why do you think the parish priest doesn't want to look Kate in the eye since Uncle Jack came home?

7. How does Kate feel about Michael, and how can you tell?

8. Why do you think the playwright chose to have adult Michael speak the lines of child Michael instead of having two actors?

9. What does Maggie release for Michael to see?

10. What does Maggie mean when she tells Michael that someday he's going to fill some woman's life with happiness?

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