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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pat salutes him, sees he has something important to talk about, and tells Meg to do what?
(a) Sweep the steps.
(b) Plug her ears.
(c) Begin cooking dinner.
(d) Leave.

2. This person who will soon be arriving is what?
(a) A kind man.
(b) The only man of his kind.
(c) An Irish soldier.
(d) The first of many prisoners.

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

4. What does Meg say to Mulleady's complaint?
(a) He should go buy new shirts.
(b) She could not help it that his shirts became discolored or torn.
(c) He can fold his own shirts next time.
(d) Stop complaining or else she will ask for the rent money he owes.

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

6. Why had Teresa left a convent?
(a) She fell in love with one of the nuns.
(b) She did not find herself attractive in a habit.
(c) She had fallen in love with a student priest.
(d) She had decided against becoming a nun.

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

8. What do Meg, Teresa and Mulleady discuss?
(a) How horrible the Officer is.
(b) How the Irish prisoner must be feeling.
(c) How the British prisoner must be feeling.
(d) How Pat could go along with this plan.

9. Monsewer comes in, checking with Pat to make sure about what?
(a) The boarding house is full.
(b) All rent money has been paid.
(c) His breakfast has been prepared.
(d) Preparations have been made for the arrival of the soldiers and their prisoner.

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

11. 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) Soldiers, one Irish and one British.
(d) Caretakers, one Irish and one British.

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

13. About what else do Meg and Pat argue?
(a) Whether Meg has any right to argue because she's too young to remember the IRA's first battles in the early 1900's.
(b) Pat's ability to deal with the Soldier.
(c) Whether Meg should know many details about the arrival of this prisoner.
(d) Pat's missing leg.

14. How does Meg act towards Miss Gilchrist, when trying to get her to leave?
(a) She swears and speaks crudely.
(b) She screams at her.
(c) She ignores her.
(d) She forcefully pushes her out.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Pat try to reassure her?

3. On what does Pat insist from the officer?

4. What does the officer tell Meg and Teresa to do?

5. What does Mulleady reveal about his past?

(see the answer keys)

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