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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. What does Kate say the radio has done to the country?
2. What does Gerry Evans think Agnes should do for a living?
3. What does Rose say happened to the boy who was burned at the Lughnasa festival?
4. What does Chris do when Gerry Evans dances with Agnes and Maggie?
5. Why is Gerry Evans in the tree in Act 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who does Maggie forget to count when she is calculating people they must feed for dinner?
2. 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?
3. How does the Industrial Revolution affect the lives of the Mundy sisters?
4. Where did Gerry Evans sign up for military service, and why is that location significant?
5. How did Michael behave as his father, Gerry Evans, had done?
6. Why does Gerry Evans decide to go to war in a foreign country?
7. What has changed about Rose's appearance when she comes home from her meeting with Danny Bradley?
8. How does Maggie make a joke of the small amount of food they have?
9. Maggie asks Michael a riddle about the apples on a tree. What might those apples symbolize?
10. What significance can we attach to Uncle Jack's declaration that he is cold all the time?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The playwright, Brian Friel, uses the character Michael to tell the audience the eventual fate of the characters before the play itself is finished. How did knowing where the characters' actions would lead them affect you as a reader? Did you find it an effective dramatic device?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze what it means to you that young Michael's kites have faces that are cruel and grinning, and that they are not able to fly. Why do you think the playwright put this element into his play? What do these kites tell you about young Michael's feelings toward the women in his family? Toward life in general?
Essay Topic 3
Uncle Jack's uniform is an important symbol in this story. Analyze the appearance of his uniform in the mind's eye of young Michael and the rest of his family, and the appearance of his uniform at the end. What does the change represent? How has the family's view of Uncle Jack changed after he has been home for a few weeks?
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