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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. To whom does Maggie compare herself when she dances?
2. When Uncle Jack speaks of Uganda, what does he call it?
3. Why is Gerry Evans in the tree in Act 2?
4. Why does Kate think Agnes and Rose did not apply to work in the knitting factory?
5. What does Rose say happened to the boy who was burned at the Lughnasa festival?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Uncle Jack reveal about his ministry in Ryanga when Maggie asks if the people there gathered in his church for ceremonies?
2. Who does Maggie forget to count when she is calculating people they must feed for dinner?
3. 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?
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 did Michael behave as his father, Gerry Evans, had done?
7. How does Maggie make a joke of the small amount of food they have?
8. 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?
9. Why does Gerry Evans decide to go to war in a foreign country?
10. Why did Kate believe Agnes could not work in a factory?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The music of the 1930s has an important role in this play, as it had on the characters' lives. Analyze what you think the playwright was showing us, the audience, with the use of "Anything Goes" and "Dancing in the Dark." Listen to these once-popular songs on the Internet before writing about them, as a great deal more than the title is to be learned from them.
Essay Topic 2
Ceremonies are important in this story. Select two of the ceremonies that are described or enacted to compare and contrast. Possibilities might be the silent dance "wedding" of Chris and Gerry Evans, the exchange of hats between Uncle Jack and Gerry Evans, the wild Irish dancing of the five sisters, the Ryangan ceremonies to celebrate the harvest, or the festival of Lughnasa itself.
Essay Topic 3
Rose is described as "simple," yet she is the one who informs the family about goings-on in the village and in the world around them. How do you imagine that she gets this information, and what does it tell you about her and the way the family views her? Use examples from the play to explore Rose's character. Do her sisters understand her? Does she understand them? Why or why not?
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