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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Monsewer doing as he comes in?
(a) Asking about the room being prepared for the soldier.
(b) Arguing with Meg over the dinner menu.
(c) Blowing the first few notes of his song on the bagpipes.
(d) Singing a sad lament.

2. Of what is Monsewer the owner?
(a) A large hotel.
(b) A boarding house.
(c) A pub.
(d) A restaurant and bar.

3. Why are they both captured and held hostage?
(a) The property for which they care is under investigation.
(b) As part of the ongoing hostilities between the United States and the Nazi party.
(c) As part of the ongoing hostilities between the Irish Republican Army and the British government.
(d) They are breaking the law.

4. What do Pat and Meg talk briefly about when Monsewer leaves?
(a) One of the tenants Monsewer brought into the house.
(b) The prostitutes in the house.
(c) The boarding house's expenses.
(d) How well he runs the house.

5. About what else do Meg and Pat argue?
(a) Pat's ability to deal with the Soldier.
(b) Pat's missing leg.
(c) Whether Meg should know many details about the arrival of this prisoner.
(d) Whether Meg has any right to argue because she's too young to remember the IRA's first battles in the early 1900's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mulleady become angry at Princess Grace?

2. About what does Mulleady complain, regarding his shirts?

3. What does his missing leg have to do with his conversation with Meg?

4. What is the IRA?

5. What do various characters say about the Soldier?

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