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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the marchers doing?
(a) Protesting the execution of the imprisoned Irish soldier.
(b) Playing with the children watching the parade.
(c) Dancing an Irish jig.
(d) Celebrating a day of independence from Great Britain.

2. What do the Officer and the Volunteer do as Pat, Meg and Miss Gilchrist sit, drink, sing, and bicker over whether Pat was a good soldier in the cause of the IRA?
(a) They join in the party.
(b) They watch everyone.
(c) Stand guard over the Soldier.
(d) They leave to talk.

3. What does the Soldier ask Teresa to do?
(a) Bring him his dinner.
(b) Leave.
(c) Never come back.
(d) Stay.

4. About whom is the article?
(a) The IRA.
(b) The Queen.
(c) The military.
(d) The King.

5. What does the Officer think Meg is there to do?
(a) Cook breakfast.
(b) Sing a song.
(c) Clean the room.
(d) Have sex with the Soldier.

6. As Meg makes crude jokes, what does Miss Gilchrist say?
(a) She is rude and annoying.
(b) She would be smarter to spend her time cleaning her house instead of joking.
(c) She should be quiet.
(d) She needs to leave.

7. What does Teresa do as Pat sits on the bed?
(a) She giggles from the closet.
(b) She yells as the mattress sinks onto her.
(c) She gasps from behind the door.
(d) She peaks through the window.

8. What does the Soldier ask the Volunteer if he can go and do?
(a) See the rest of the house.
(b) Get his own dinner.
(c) Out back to relieve himself.
(d) Go for a walk.

9. What does Monsewer do to the Soldier?
(a) He allows him out to go for a walk.
(b) He prays for him.
(c) He brings him dinner.
(d) He interrogates him.

10. What does Miss Gilchrist think about the Royal Family?
(a) She is fond of them.
(b) She detests them.
(c) She is jealous of them.
(d) She wants to be a part of the family.

11. How does Pat respond when the Officer asks if Teresa can be trusted?
(a) Pat assures him that she can be trusted.
(b) Pat hopes she can be trusted.
(c) Pat says she cannot be trusted.
(d) Pat is not sure she can be trusted.

12. What do the other characters do as the Officer is thinking?
(a) They also think.
(b) They ask him questions.
(c) They watch him think.
(d) They rush onstage to watch the parade.

13. While the Soldier is gone, what does Teresa do?
(a) She searches for him.
(b) She brings him his dinner.
(c) She pours him a cup of tea.
(d) She runs back with the cigarettes.

14. How does the Soldier not want to ruin his time with Teresa?
(a) By listening to her talk.
(b) By arguing.
(c) By talking about him.
(d) By singing.

15. How do Meg and the other characters make jokes about the author?
(a) He is actually French.
(b) He is both anti-Irish and anti-British.
(c) He is an American.
(d) He is both pro-Irish and pro-British.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does Teresa tell?

2. Why can neither the Soldier or the Volunteer go?

3. What do Princess Grace, Mulleady, and other tenants come in to do?

4. What does the Soldier realize that he has in common with the Irish soldier?

5. What does the Soldier wonder about Teresa?

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