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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Mulleady complain, regarding his shirts?
(a) He has no new shirts.
(b) His shirts are all discolored or torn.
(c) Meg has not given him back the shirts he gave her to be laundered.
(d) Meg has not folded them properly.

2. How does Meg react to this news about Mulleady?
(a) She is happy.
(b) She is shocked.
(c) She becomes angry.
(d) She is jealous.

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

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

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?
(a) He reaches for his gun.
(b) He leaves to get the money.
(c) He shoves Pat.
(d) He runs out the door.

6. What does Mulleady reveal about his past?
(a) He was once in prison.
(b) He was once a policeman.
(c) He was once an officer.
(d) He was once a spy.

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

8. What is the IRA?
(a) Iranian Ruling Army.
(b) Irish Republican Army.
(c) Irish Regency Army.
(d) Iranian Republican Army.

9. 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 takes the money from her.
(d) He reprimands her for being greedy.

10. 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.

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

12. 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.

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

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(c) Their weapons are outdated.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

15. How does Pat try to reassure her?
(a) Saying it will be their home again soon.
(b) Saying she is a good housekeeper.
(c) Saying he knows Monsewer will sell it soon.
(d) Saying she is nothing like the merciless prostitutes and thieves he really meant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Miss Gilchrist heard doing?

2. Why can Mulleady not leave with Miss Gilchrist?

3. How does Meg act towards Miss Gilchrist, when trying to get her to leave?

4. What serves as a transition into the first scene?

5. The Officer says the prisoner will be arriving soon but what?

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