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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pat sing?
(a) A dramatic song about the IRA.
(b) A love song to Ireland.
(c) A lament about a laughing soldier killed for the Irish cause.
(d) A humorous song about England.

2. How does Miss Gilchrist respond to angry inquiries about what her name means?
(a) With a haughty comment about her name meaning she is a daughter of Christ.
(b) With a haughty comment about her name meaning she is a servant of Christ.
(c) With a haughty comment about her name meaning she is a message from Christ.
(d) With a haughty comment about her name meaning she is a gift of Christ.

3. When she is gone, what does Monsewer tell Pat?
(a) A captured Irish soldier is being brought to them.
(b) A man is coming to take over the boarding house.
(c) Two soldiers will be coming soon with a captured English soldier.
(d) The British are coming to imprison them.

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

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

6. What serves as a transition into the first scene?
(a) A scream.
(b) A blast of bagpipes.
(c) A gunshot.
(d) A loud noise.

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

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

9. As the IRA officer inspects the books, what does he say?
(a) If he had his way, the prisoner would be going to another house.
(b) If her had his way, this home would be destroyed.
(c) If he had his way, the prisoner would stay here.
(d) If he had his way, he would stay here without the prisoner.

10. Why does Mulleady become angry at Princess Grace?
(a) For being unkind to him.
(b) For telling on him.
(c) For entering the room before him.
(d) For not paying his rent.

11. How does the officer quote a leader of the IRA?
(a) A leopard cannot change its spots.
(b) A good man is hard to find.
(c) A noble cause must be served by noble men.
(d) A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

12. When does the Soldier say those who are parted will all be brought together?
(a) When they move to England.
(b) When they die.
(c) When they choose peace.
(d) When they are destroyed by the H-bomb.

13. The Officer says the prisoner will be arriving soon but what?
(a) They have not actually captured him yet.
(b) He may not be the only one.
(c) He is injured.
(d) He will be very disagreeable.

14. Who are the caretakers?
(a) Meg and Teresa.
(b) Meg and Pat.
(c) Monsewer and Teresa.
(d) Teresa and Pat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Meg and Teresa enter the scene at this point?

2. Why does Mulleady say Colette should not have to service the Polish sailor?

3. As he comes in, the Soldier does what?

4. What does Pat promise to sing?

5. What does Mulleady reveal about his past?

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