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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Pat do when Colette takes the money?
(a) He tells her to return the money immediately.
(b) He takes the money from her.
(c) He indicates that the sailor should follow her into her room.
(d) He reprimands her for being greedy.

4. Pat comments that when he first arrived, Monsewer spoke nothing but what?
(a) German.
(b) French.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Irish.

5. How does Teresa feel about Monsewer?
(a) Love.
(b) Shame.
(c) Contempt.
(d) Uncertainty.

6. What ironic comment does Pat make, regarding what Monsewar has told him?
(a) How he wishes the IRA would fight again.
(b) How wonderful it is to be British.
(c) How great it is the IRA is fighting again.
(d) How sad it is that the IRA is fighting again.

7. What does the officer do when Pat says he needs to go out to get the money before he will allow the prisoner to stay?
(a) He shoves Pat.
(b) He reaches for his gun.
(c) He runs out the door.
(d) He leaves to get the money.

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

9. 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) He is practicing to play a lament for a young member of the IRA who is to be executed the following morning.
(d) She is a professional bagpipe player.

10. What does Pat say about the tenants' money?
(a) It is good no matter who or what they are.
(b) It does not cover the expenses of the boarding house.
(c) It is only good when rent is paid in full.
(d) It is no good.

11. With what does Princess Grace come in?
(a) Her rent and news that Mulleady has not paid his rent.
(b) Her rent and news that Mulleady is a spy.
(c) Her rent and news that Mulleady has a woman in his room.
(d) Her rent and news that Mulleady has a prisoner.

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

13. This raucous comedy-drama tells the parallel stories of what two people?
(a) Soldiers, one American and one German.
(b) Caretakers, one Irish and one British.
(c) Soldiers, one Irish and one British.
(d) Prostitutes, one Irish and one British.

14. How did Monsewer choose his title?
(a) He wishes he were French.
(b) He wanted nothing to do with anything English such as the title "mister."
(c) He wanted to sound sophisticated.
(d) He grew tired of his name.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Meg act towards Miss Gilchrist, when trying to get her to leave?

2. What circumstances do Meg and Pat discuss?

3. During the conversation, what does Pat comment about the fight of the IRA for independence?

4. What do various characters say about the Soldier?

5. After a brief argument what does Mulleady do?

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