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

2. What does Mildred say she has permission to visit?
(a) The lower decks.
(b) The stokehole.
(c) The engine room.
(d) The captain's cabin.

3. What does Long say the engineers were exhibiting them like?
(a) Monkeys.
(b) Artifacts.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Cattle.

4. What Irish city does Yank mention in the third scene?
(a) Belfast.
(b) Dublin.
(c) Newry.
(d) Cork.

5. What do the men say Yank has forgotten to do?
(a) Wash himself.
(b) Pay their wages.
(c) Eat his dinner.
(d) Put on his shirt.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does O'Neill describe Mildred's aunt?

3. What do the men use to throw open the furnace doors?

4. What does Mildred call the second engineer when he leaves?

5. What does Mildred say she will do with her dress if she gets it dirty?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way do the sailors sound like a mob when they speak?

2. Why is Mildred's aunt against the idea of Mildred going down into the engine room?

3. What happens when the Yank releases the gorilla from its cage?

4. Why does Yank suddenly become angry with Mildred's father?

5. How does Yank show his rage at the end of the fourth scene?

6. Why does the guard hose Yank down?

7. Descibe the setting in scene two?

8. How does the author the compare exploitation of the working classes with Christianity?

9. Decribe the setting in scene eight.

10. What does Yank decide is the only way to get back at people who have ruined his life?

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