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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. Why does Gerry Evans say he is going to Spain?
(a) To earn a living for his family.
(b) It's somewhere to go.
(c) To fight for democracy.
(d) To fight to preserve the union.

2. Why does Michael think Agnes and Rose did not apply to work in the knitting factory?
(a) Rose and Agnes were tired of knitting gloves.
(b) Rose would not have been hired at the factory.
(c) Agnes would not have been hired at the factory.
(d) Neither sister would have been hired at the factory.

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

4. What is the result of Gerry Evans' war injury?
(a) He is unable to walk.
(b) He is unable to work.
(c) He is unable to dance.
(d) He is paralyzed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chris want Gerry Evans to do for the family?

2. What phrase comforts Kate when she thinks of Uncle Jack's pagan worship?

3. When Uncle Jack says "we," to whom does he refer?

4. How does Chris earn her living after Uncle Jack dies?

5. What language does the recruiter for the Spanish army speak?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Which of the sisters understands the politics of the Spanish Civil War?

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

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

8. What significance do you make of the fact that the recruiter who enlists Gerry Evans in the war effort is, unnoticed by Gerry Evans until after he is writing his name, a midget?

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

10. When Uncle Jack hears wedding bells, he asks if it is one of his sisters who is getting married. Who is actually marrying?

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