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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. Who does Uncle Jack say brought a woman back from the dead?
(a) God, the Father.
(b) A medicine man.
(c) The Holy Ghost.
(d) The parish priest.

2. Which sister is dead when Michael finds them?
(a) Agnes.
(b) Neither was dead when Michael found them.
(c) Rose.
(d) Both were dead when Michael found them.

3. How long does it take Michael to find Agnes and Rose?
(a) A year.
(b) All week.
(c) Twenty-five years.
(d) Two months.

4. When does Chris say Michael always vanishes?
(a) When it's dinnertime.
(b) When it's time to feed the chickens.
(c) When it's bedtime.
(d) When there's work to be done.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Gerry Evans wounded in Spain?

2. What does Michael say the characters in the play respond to more than the beat of the music?

3. What does Michael say haunts his memory of the thirties?

4. Why does Rose laugh at Agnes while they are picking berries?

5. What has Michael painted on the kites?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What does Uncle Jack reveal about his ministry in Ryanga when Maggie asks if the people there gathered in his church for ceremonies?

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

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

6. How is the Ryangan harvest festival described by Uncle Jack similar to the festival of Lughansa?

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

8. Why might Agnes have believed Rose could not get work in the factory?

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

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

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