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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 Michael say is found in dancing?
(a) Unity and community.
(b) The heart of life and all its hopes.
(c) Untapped emotions.
(d) Strong and unrecognized feelings.

2. What skill does Gerry Evans have that the army wanted?
(a) He can make explosives.
(b) He can fire a cannon.
(c) He can ride a motor bike.
(d) He can speak Spanish.

3. In Act 2, what does Maggie think Agnes should do to make a living?
(a) Start a dressmaking business.
(b) Travel to Dublin and look for work.
(c) Go to work in the glove factory.
(d) Gather turf to sell.

4. Where does Gerry Evans hide when Agnes comes back from picking blackberries?
(a) Behind the door.
(b) In the bushes in front of the house.
(c) On top of the sycamore tree.
(d) Under the table.

5. Where are Agnes and Rose when Michael finds them?
(a) London.
(b) Dublin.
(c) New York.
(d) Sweden.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Rose share her picnic with?

2. What is unusual about the recruiter of which Gerry Evans learns as he writes his name?

3. How does Chris feel about her job?

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

5. How is Gerry Evans wounded in Spain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is it that Kate asks Uncle Jack to promise?

2. What does Uncle Jack reveal about his ministry in Ryanga when Kate asks if the people gather together for Mass?

3. What news does Rose bring her family about the boy who was burned during the Lughnasa fires?

4. The recruiter tells Gerry Evans that he is invaluable to the brigade because he is a master at disguising himself. How does this revelation relate to the false impression he has given to Gerry Evans?

5. There are important facts about the Spanish Civil War that Gerry Evans does not understand. One is that the Popular Front represents a Fascist, rather than a Republican, government. The other is that the Popular Front is anti-Catholic. How is this ignorance on his part ironic?

6. How does Maggie make a joke of the small amount of food they have?

7. What significance can we attach to Uncle Jack's declaration that he is cold all the time?

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

9. How does Uncle Jack reveal that the Ryangans have not been converted to Christianity by his efforts?

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

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