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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do various characters say about the Soldier?
(a) He should be put in a smaller cell.
(b) He should be hanged.
(c) He should be shown mercy.
(d) He should be fed.

2. What does the Officer demand?
(a) That Monsewer be taken out and says that nobody is to be allowed in from this point on.
(b) That Teresa leave the room.
(c) That the Soldier be shot.
(d) That he be left alone with the Soldier.

3. Why is this person playing the bagpipes?
(a) She is a professional bagpipe player.
(b) She is practicing to play a lament for a young member of the IRA who is to be executed the following morning.
(c) He is a professional bagpipe player.
(d) He is practicing to play a lament for a young member of the IRA who is to be executed the following morning.

4. What does Pat sing?
(a) A love song to Ireland.
(b) A humorous song about England.
(c) A dramatic song about the IRA.
(d) A lament about a laughing soldier killed for the Irish cause.

5. Of what does Pat tell the Soldier he has no reason to fear?
(a) Being killed.
(b) Dying.
(c) Being tortured.
(d) Suffering.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is revealed about Meg?

2. What does the Soldier say about dying?

3. Why do Meg and Teresa enter the scene at this point?

4. How do Meg and the other characters make jokes about the author?

5. What does Mulleady reveal about his past?

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