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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 ignores him.
(b) He tells Pat to stay quiet.
(c) He orders an escort for the Soldier.
(d) He takes the Soldier out.

2. How do the others respond when the Soldier asks whether any of the others would let him free?
(a) Teresa, alone, said she would free him.
(b) No one will free him.
(c) No one responds.
(d) Everyone says they would free him.

3. What do Teresa and the Soldier hear?
(a) A gunshot.
(b) A clock strike in the town.
(c) A scream.
(d) Laughter.

4. What does the Soldier say he has done wrong?
(a) He shot an IRA officer.
(b) He stole money from the IRA.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He was a spy.

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) Go for a walk.
(d) Out back to relieve himself.

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

7. What does the Soldier say about dying?
(a) He should not have to die.
(b) He does not want to die.
(c) An Englishman can die with just as much courage as an Irishman.
(d) He is afraid to die.

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

9. What does Pat say is a bluff?
(a) The capturing of the Irish soldier.
(b) The imprisonment of the Soldier.
(c) The article in the newspaper.
(d) The British threats to kills the Irish soldier.

10. What does Teresa do after the Officer and Pat go outside?
(a) She comes out of the closet.
(b) She comes in through the window.
(c) She comes out from under the bed.
(d) She comes from behind the door.

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

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

13. About what does Meg taunt Pat?
(a) Having only one leg.
(b) Being a grumpy old man.
(c) Having bad luck.
(d) Being angry and resentful of the young IRA soldiers.

14. About what is Meg's song?
(a) Love and compassion.
(b) Peace between the Irish and British.
(c) Irish rebels being attacked by the British in the way the Germans in World War II attacked the French.
(d) Regret and loneliness.

15. What does Meg say about killing both soldiers?
(a) It will not do any good.
(b) It is the best option.
(c) It is the only thing that can be done.
(d) It is cruel.

Short Answer Questions

1. About which soldier is the article talking?

2. How do Meg and the other characters make jokes about the author?

3. What does an article in the paper say about the "the condemned soldier?"

4. About what does the Soldier tease Teresa?

5. What will happen if the Irish soldier is executed?

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