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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 word does Kate use to describe Michael?
(a) Talented.
(b) Wild.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Untutored.
2. What does Gerry Evans seem to be able to do that no one else in the family can?
(a) Earn a living.
(b) Teach Michael to dance.
(c) Fix the radio.
(d) Fix a meal with only three eggs.
3. What is the result of Gerry Evans' war injury?
(a) He is paralyzed.
(b) He is unable to walk.
(c) He is unable to work.
(d) He is unable to dance.
4. What does Gerry Evans trade with Uncle Jack?
(a) Philosophies.
(b) Walking sticks.
(c) Reminiscences.
(d) Hats.
5. What does dancing become in Michael's memory?
(a) A lost art.
(b) A daydream.
(c) A form of exercise.
(d) A wordless ceremony.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Kate think Agnes and Rose did not apply to work in the knitting factory?
2. How does Chris earn her living after Uncle Jack dies?
3. What does Gerry Evans promise Michael during each annual visit?
4. What does Michael say haunts his memory of the thirties?
5. How many husbands does Uncle Jack say he could provide the sisters in Ryanga?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
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. What news does Rose bring her family about the boy who was burned during the Lughnasa fires?
4. How does the Industrial Revolution affect the lives of the Mundy sisters?
5. What is it that Kate asks Uncle Jack to promise?
6. What is Michael writing to ask Santa Claus to bring, and why is the gift he wants significant?
7. What does Uncle Jack reveal about his ministry in Ryanga when Maggie asks if the people there gathered in his church for ceremonies?
8. Why does Gerry Evans decide to go to war in a foreign country?
9. What does Uncle Jack reveal about his relationship to Okawa when he speaks about his time in Uganda?
10. What does Uncle Jack reveal about his ministry in Ryanga when Kate asks if the people gather together for Mass?
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