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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word Yank uses do the men repeat?
(a) Fangs.
(b) Work.
(c) Piebald.
(d) Think.

2. What does Paddy say Mildred was dressed like when she came into the stokehole?
(a) A heavenly angel.
(b) A cherub.
(c) A white swan.
(d) A white quane.

3. What work does Mildred say sounds thrilling?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Warning.
(c) Boiling.
(d) Grubby.

4. What does Paddy say is broke?
(a) His back.
(b) His heart.
(c) His legs.
(d) His will.

5. What does Yank shout at the "Belfast bum" for doing?
(a) Closing the furnace door.
(b) Pulling on the whistle.
(c) Doing nothing.
(d) Talking too loudly.

6. What does Yank think Mildred called him?
(a) A hairy ape.
(b) A black knight.
(c) A Negro slave.
(d) A filthy beast.

7. What does Yank say is his favorite climate?
(a) Snow.
(b) Hell.
(c) Rain.
(d) Heaven.

8. What does a voice say Yank has scared Mildred out of?
(a) Coming in to the stokers hole.
(b) Leaving her home.
(c) Talking to the working classes.
(d) A year' growth.

9. Where does scene two take place?
(a) The engine room.
(b) The captain's cabin.
(c) The promenade deck.
(d) The upper deck.

10. What does Mildred see swirling against the sky?
(a) Black smoke.
(b) Red clouds.
(c) Grey smoke.
(d) Seagulls.

11. What does Mildred call the second engineer when he leaves?
(a) A nut.
(b) A poser.
(c) An oaf.
(d) A ogre.

12. What does Paddy say the engineer was pointing at them like?
(a) A man in a circus.
(b) A slavedriver on a plantation.
(c) A professor in a musuem.
(d) A spaceman on Mars.

13. What animal does the author compare to the Yank's face?
(a) A horse.
(b) A bull.
(c) A monkey.
(d) A gorilla.

14. What quality does the author say the men give the word love?
(a) A dusty quality.
(b) A timeless quality.
(c) A metallic quality.
(d) A rusty quality.

15. What kind of expression does the coal dust give the men?
(a) A puppet expression.
(b) A comedic expression.
(c) A gothic expression.
(d) A sinister expression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paddy say he wished Yank did to Mildred?

2. Who do most of the men smoke?

3. What does Long say Mildred's father has a enough gold to do?

4. What does Mildred say age makes a person?

5. What drink do the voices say is doped?

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