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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Soldier say about the members of the British Parliament?
(a) They are heartless.
(b) They are concerned with only the British cause.
(c) They are more into their own concerns and lives than anything else.
(d) They are cruel.

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

3. What do Meg and Miss Gilchrist tell Pat he needs to reconsider?
(a) His life.
(b) What he charges for rent.
(c) His haircut.
(d) His position.

4. 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 watch everyone.
(b) Stand guard over the Soldier.
(c) They join in the party.
(d) They leave to talk.

5. 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.

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

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

8. What does the Soldier wonder about Teresa?
(a) Whether she will bring him his dinner.
(b) Where she is from.
(c) Why she is here.
(d) Whether she will bring him the tea.

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

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

11. How can the song by the Soldier be understood?
(a) As a a reference to his resentment, and British resentment in general, for all non-British.
(b) As a reference to the influence of America on many in Europe.
(c) As a way to show that he has worth.
(d) As a song of love for his Irish captors.

12. About which soldier is the article talking?
(a) The Irish one.
(b) An American soldier.
(c) The British one.
(d) A French soldier.

13. When Monsewer comes in with Pat, what are they discussing?
(a) How badly he played but that his playing will be better in the morning.
(b) What is for dinner.
(c) When he will play the bagpipes again.
(d) How well he plays the badpipes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Pat tell the Soldier he has no reason to fear?

2. How does Pat respond when the Officer asks if Teresa can be trusted?

3. What does the Soldier do when he looks at the paper?

4. What does the Officer not want on the Soldier's conscience?

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

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