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

2. How does Monsewer go out after hearing this news?
(a) Upset.
(b) Angry.
(c) Worried.
(d) Pleased.

3. After Mulleady goes, about what does Meg complain?
(a) She is tired of her job.
(b) How annoying he is.
(c) How she purposely folded his shirts incorrectly.
(d) They will allow anybody to live there.

4. What do Meg and Pat say Monsewer studied?
(a) Irish history and language.
(b) Spanish history and language.
(c) German history and language.
(d) French history and language.

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

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

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

8. 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 fed.
(d) He should be shown mercy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What does Pat promise to sing?
(a) An Irish folk song.
(b) A beautiful ballad.
(c) A raunchy pub song.
(d) A funny song.

Short Answer Questions

1. This story explores themes relating to what?

2. What does Meg say to Mulleady's complaint?

3. With what does Princess Grace come in?

4. What takes place suddenly in this story?

5. After saying she will pray for everyone, what does Miss Gilchrist do?

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