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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 has Michael painted on the kites?
(a) Cruel, garish faces.
(b) Forest animals.
(c) Sunny, happy faces.
(d) White roosters.

2. To whom does Maggie compare herself when she dances?
(a) Ann Miller.
(b) Shirley Temple.
(c) Cyd Charisse.
(d) Mae West.

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

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

5. What are the hand knitters in Ballybeg going to do?
(a) Ride the bus to work in the factory in Donegal.
(b) March to protest the new factory.
(c) Go on public assistance.
(d) Train for different work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What work does Kate find after leaving her teaching job?

2. Why does Kate object to Gerry Evans going to Spain?

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

4. When Uncle Jack speaks of Uganda, what does he call it?

5. What does Uncle Jack think is good about the multiple-wife system?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rose describe her encounter with Danny Bradley?

2. How did Michael behave as his father, Gerry Evans, had done?

3. What has changed about Rose's appearance when she comes home from her meeting with Danny Bradley?

4. What does it tell you about Gerry Evans that he says he will check the ignition and sparking plugs of the radio?

5. What phrase did Kate hit upon that comforted her as she tried to understand Uncle Jack's changed attitude toward life since his stay in Ryanda?

6. Maggie asks Michael a riddle about the apples on a tree. What might those apples symbolize?

7. What do you make of the kites as a symbol or metaphor, and of the fact that they wouldn't fly?

8. Where did Gerry Evans sign up for military service, and why is that location significant?

9. Who does Maggie forget to count when she is calculating people they must feed for dinner?

10. What is Michael writing to ask Santa Claus to bring, and why is the gift he wants significant?

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