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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Princess Grace, Mulleady, and other tenants come in to do?
(a) To help the prisoner.
(b) To offer support.
(c) Try to catch a glimpse of the prisoner.
(d) To taunt the prisoner.

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

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

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

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

6. How does the Soldier respond when Pat tells him he is a prisoner of war?
(a) You cannot shoot prisoners of war.
(b) He should not be a prisoner of war.
(c) There is no war.
(d) You cannot torture prisoners of war.

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

8. As Miss Gilchrist takes a drink to the Soldier, what does the Volunteer do?
(a) He warns her to sit down and Pat says neither she nor Meg has the right to comment on his situation.
(b) He tells her to give him the drink instead.
(c) He warns her to not get attached to the Soldier.
(d) He tells her to stay away from him.

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

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

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

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

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

14. Of what does Pat tell the Soldier he has no reason to fear?
(a) Suffering.
(b) Being tortured.
(c) Being killed.
(d) Dying.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the other characters do as the Officer is thinking?

3. Why is the Irish prisoner in jail?

4. As the parade passes, what does Miss Gilchrist do to the Soldier?

5. As Meg makes crude jokes, what does Miss Gilchrist say?

(see the answer keys)

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