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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. How does Chris feel about her job?
(a) She hates every minute of it.
(b) She is grateful for every minute of it.
(c) She loves every minute of it.
(d) She is bored by every minute of it.

2. What household task does Maggie take from Agnes during Lughnasa?
(a) Laundry.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Cleaning.
(d) Feeding the chickens.

3. What happened to Rose's pet rooster?
(a) Rose killed it.
(b) The fox killed it.
(c) It died mysteriously.
(d) Maggie killed it.

4. What phrase comforts Kate when she thinks of Uncle Jack's pagan worship?
(a) "His own distinctive spiritual search."
(b) "His own ecumenical understanding."
(c) "His way of bringing the world together."
(d) "His own way of looking at the world."

5. What does Maggie say she would choose if she had to select either a plump old widower or one Wild Woodbine?
(a) Both.
(b) The plump old widower.
(c) Neither.
(d) The Wild Woodbine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Kate use to describe Michael?

2. Who does Uncle Jack say brought a woman back from the dead?

3. Where does Gerry Evans hide when Agnes comes back from picking blackberries?

4. What does Gerry Evans say they need to check if the aerial is all right but the radio still won't work?

5. When does Michael get a letter from another Michael Evans?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. Why does Gerry Evans decide to go to war in a foreign country?

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

9. How does the Industrial Revolution affect the lives of the Mundy sisters?

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

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