View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Officer do after Pat calls him?
(a) He tells Pat to stay quiet.
(b) He takes the Soldier out.
(c) He orders an escort for the Soldier.
(d) He ignores him.

2. When Meg is finished, what is Pat's comment?
(a) The song was beautiful.
(b) Can she sing a more optimistic tune.
(c) The author of the play should have sung the song.
(d) Is she done torturing them.

3. What does Miss Gilchrist do when Pat makes jokes about the dirty parts of the Bible?
(a) She begins to read the Bible to him.
(b) She leaves.
(c) She reprimands him for being so vulgar.
(d) She weeps as she speaks of her principles of compassion.

4. What story does Teresa tell?
(a) A story of when she became an Irishwoman.
(b) A story of when she first moved to the boarding house.
(c) A story of when she became an orphan.
(d) A story of when she was a girl in the convent.

5. Describe the song the Soldier sings.
(a) It is an American rock and roll song.
(b) It is a song he wrote.
(c) It is an ironic one about how happy he is to be British.
(d) It is an old Irish tune.

6. Why is the Irish prisoner in jail?
(a) He shot a British police officer.
(b) He was acting as a spy.
(c) He did nothing.
(d) He stole from the British government.

7. The Soldier speaks flirtatiously with Teresa, saying what?
(a) She looks like an English maiden.
(b) He thinks she is beautiful.
(c) He liked her dancing and that he hopes she cooked the food she brought.
(d) He hopes she is a good cook.

8. Over what do the characters argue?
(a) Why the Irish prisoner did what he did.
(b) What should be done to the Irish prisoner.
(c) What to have for dinner.
(d) Which side is right.

9. What does the Officer not want on the Soldier's conscience?
(a) A mortal sin.
(b) A less than satisfying meal.
(c) Guilt for making Meg work.
(d) The memory of a poorly sung song.

10. When the Soldier describes their situation as war, about what does Meg speak angrily?
(a) She has always lived during war time.
(b) Her parents were killed during a war.
(c) The innocents whose lives were destroyed by that war.
(d) War never ends.

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

12. What does an article in the paper say about the "the condemned soldier?"
(a) He will be freed.
(b) He is innocent.
(c) He will be a martyr.
(d) He is not going to be reprieved.

13. As Pat offers the Volunteer and the Soldier a drink, what does the Soldier demand?
(a) To know why he cannot be freed.
(b) To know how he will die.
(c) To know what he did to deserve this treatment.
(d) To know when he will die.

14. What does Monsewer remember when talking to the Soldier?
(a) His time as a soldier.
(b) Learning to play the bagpipes.
(c) Dancing Irish jigs as a child.
(d) Playing cricket as a boy.

15. When Mulleady reads some of the article aloud, what does Pat say?
(a) It is a disgrace.
(b) It should not be read to anyone.
(c) It was written by an Irishman.
(d) It is disgusting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Soldier ask Teresa to do?

2. What does Teresa do after the Officer and Pat go outside?

3. What does the Soldier ask the Volunteer if he can go and do?

4. What does the Soldier say he has done wrong?

5. When Monsewer comes in with Pat, what are they discussing?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 678 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample