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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pat has a long history of disagreements with whom?
(a) The IRA leadership.
(b) The French.
(c) The police.
(d) The English.

2. After a brief argument what does Mulleady do?
(a) He goes without his shirt.
(b) He gets a shirt from Meg.
(c) He refolds his shirts.
(d) He goes to buy a new shirt.

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

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

5. How does Pat say he lost his leg?
(a) He had it amputated after an infection.
(b) As a soldier.
(c) In an automobile accident.
(d) As a child.

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

7. What bad pun does Teresa make?
(a) She calls French candy, bon bons, bonnie bons.
(b) She calls French bread, a bagette, a bagel.
(c) She calls a French cigarette, a Gauloise, a gollywog.
(d) She calls French fries, pommes frites, pomegranate fries.

8. What do Pat, Meg, and Monsewer discuss?
(a) How strange Monsewer is.
(b) The good qualities of the English.
(c) The merits of Irish versus English.
(d) How beautiful the French language is.

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

10. Of what is Pat afraid, regarding the IRA's cause?
(a) Their weapons are outdated.
(b) They will be too powerful.
(c) The will of the IRA is not strong enough.
(d) The British will not be able to overpower them.

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

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

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

14. Why does Mulleady say Colette should not have to service the Polish sailor?
(a) He is a Pole.
(b) He is a stranger.
(c) He is a member of the IRA.
(d) He is a Communist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Monsewer choose his title?

2. This raucous comedy-drama tells the parallel stories of what two people?

3. What does Meg tearfully tell him?

4. Why do Pat and the Officer go out?

5. 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?

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