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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Pat sing?
(a) How he wishes he were an Irishman.
(b) How wonderful the Brits are.
(c) How strong the IRA once was.
(d) How he wonders what life is like outside of Ireland.

2. What does Meg tell Mulleady as she chases him out?
(a) To get his rent money.
(b) To leave Miss Gilchrist alone.
(c) To leave.
(d) To clean his room.

3. What do Meg and Teresa do when they see the British soldier in the doorway?
(a) They run to him.
(b) They scream.
(c) They stop dancing.
(d) They continue dancing.

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

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

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

7. How does the story begin?
(a) The actors walk solemnly onto the stage.
(b) Rock and roll music is heard.
(c) A narrator appears.
(d) The actors dance an Irish jig.

8. 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 French fries, pommes frites, pomegranate fries.
(d) She calls a French cigarette, a Gauloise, a gollywog.

9. 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) Prostitutes, one Irish and one British.
(d) Soldiers, one Irish and one British.

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

11. What does Pat promise Teresa if she can keep her mouth shut?
(a) She can have a home there the rest of her life.
(b) She will not be charged rent the next month.
(c) She will not be put in jail.
(d) She can have whatever she wants.

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

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

14. Who speaks angrily to the characters?
(a) Two caretakers.
(b) Two prostitutes.
(c) Two soldiers.
(d) Two narrators.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the sailor shows a handful of notes, what do Meg and Pat comment?

2. About what does Mulleady complain, regarding his shirts?

3. What is Monsewer doing as he comes in?

4. Of what is Monsewer the owner?

5. Monsewer comes in, checking with Pat to make sure about what?

(see the answer keys)

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