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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Meg comes back in. About what do she and Pat argue?
(a) Whether Monsewer's leaving is a good choice.
(b) Whether Monsewer's kidnapping plan is a good one.
(c) Whether the Irish Soldier should be staying here.
(d) Whether the British will take them hostage.

3. Pat comes back in with Monsewer and Meg tells him what?
(a) That dinner is ready.
(b) What is happening to the Irish prisoner.
(c) That the prisoner's room is prepared.
(d) What is happening to the British prisoner.

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

5. What does Meg tell Teresa about Monswer?
(a) He is a spy.
(b) He is a great man.
(c) He is a horrible man.
(d) He is a strange man.

6. What does the officer tell Meg and Teresa to do?
(a) Keep dancing.
(b) Leave the room.
(c) Get his room ready.
(d) Stop dancing.

7. When the sailor shows a handful of notes, what do Meg and Pat comment?
(a) Money is the best religion and the best form of politics.
(b) Money means nothing when one is a Communist.
(c) They do not want his dirty money.
(d) No amount of money can persuade them.

8. Why do Meg and Teresa enter the scene at this point?
(a) To make the bed ready.
(b) To make sure Pat is alright.
(c) To check on the Prisoner.
(d) To speak to the Officer.

9. What do they do when music comes on the radio?
(a) They dance.
(b) They laugh.
(c) They sing.
(d) They turn off the radio.

10. What takes place suddenly in this story?
(a) Violence.
(b) Gun shots.
(c) Violence, music, and humor.
(d) Music.

11. 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 has any right to argue because she's too young to remember the IRA's first battles in the early 1900's.
(d) Whether Meg should know many details about the arrival of this prisoner.

12. What does Teresa insist will be a shame?
(a) When the prisoner dies.
(b) When the prisoner arrives.
(c) If the prisoner escapes.
(d) If the prisoner is a kind man.

13. About what does Mulleady complain, regarding his shirts?
(a) Meg has not folded them properly.
(b) Meg has not given him back the shirts he gave her to be laundered.
(c) His shirts are all discolored or torn.
(d) He has no new shirts.

14. When she is gone, what does Monsewer tell Pat?
(a) A man is coming to take over the boarding house.
(b) The British are coming to imprison them.
(c) Two soldiers will be coming soon with a captured English soldier.
(d) A captured Irish soldier is being brought to them.

15. As he comes in, the Soldier does what?
(a) Says, "Long live the Queen!"
(b) Sings a song about how good it is to be on earth.
(c) Sings an Irish tune.
(d) Dances an Irish jig.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Meg and Teresa do when they see the British soldier in the doorway?

2. Why does Meg feel betrayed?

3. When does the Soldier say those who are parted will all be brought together?

4. What does Pat promise to sing?

5. Of what is Pat afraid, regarding the IRA's cause?

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