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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Monsewer think about everyone who lives in the house?
(a) They are all rebels on the run from the British authorities.
(b) They are members of the secret police.
(c) They are all prostitutes and degenarates.
(d) They are all British spies.

2. Who is playing the bagpipes?
(a) Teresa.
(b) Pat.
(c) Meg.
(d) Monsewer.

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

4. How does Pat try to reassure her?
(a) Saying she is a good housekeeper.
(b) Saying he knows Monsewer will sell it soon.
(c) Saying it will be their home again soon.
(d) Saying she is nothing like the merciless prostitutes and thieves he really meant.

5. What is the IRA?
(a) Iranian Republican Army.
(b) Irish Regency Army.
(c) Irish Republican Army.
(d) Iranian Ruling Army.

6. What does Meg tearfully tell him?
(a) She would also like it to be their home again.
(b) She hopes Monsewer sells it.
(c) She tries to keep the home tidy.
(d) She may be a prostitute but she is still a patriot.

7. What does his missing leg have to do with his conversation with Meg?
(a) She should be careful when she has an infection, or she could end up without a leg too.
(b) Meg does not know the entire story surrounding his missing leg and she should be quiet.
(c) He should not be talked to rudely because he lost his leg as a soldier.
(d) He cannot help that he was in a car accident and should not be teased.

8. Who speaks angrily to the characters?
(a) Two narrators.
(b) Two soldiers.
(c) Two caretakers.
(d) Two prostitutes.

9. What does Monsewer think about Irish martyrs?
(a) He would never want to be one.
(b) They are fools.
(c) He hopes he will never have to be one.
(d) He would gladly be in the same position.

10. What do Meg and Pat say drove Monsewer half mad?
(a) His move to Ireland.
(b) The treaty signed by some of the members of the IRA to end the fighting.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

11. Why does Meg feel betrayed?
(a) After all she has done for him, he turns out to be a spy.
(b) She has covered his rent before and does not want to do it again.
(c) After everything she said and did to defend Mulleady when he ran away with the church funds.
(d) She wanted to meet the prisoner first.

12. Why is this person playing the bagpipes?
(a) He 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) She 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.

13. During the conversation, what does Pat comment about the fight of the IRA for independence?
(a) It is almost over.
(b) It is never over.
(c) It has just begun.
(d) It is over.

14. What do Pat and Meg say about Monsewer's history?
(a) He was born in Ireland but was English on his mother's side.
(b) He was born in Irelnad but was English on his father's side.
(c) He was born in England but was Irish on his mother's side.
(d) He was born in England but was Irish on his father's side.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the story begin?

2. Pat comes back in with Monsewer and Meg tells him what?

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

4. The Officer says the prisoner will be arriving soon but what?

5. After Mulleady goes, about what does Meg complain?

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