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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who did Teresa help when she was a child?
(a) The nuns in the convent.
(b) Her parents.
(c) A sad little boy.
(d) The other little girls.

3. What does Princess Grace do as the Soldier and Miss Gilchrist argue over who he should pay attention to?
(a) She leads the prostitutes in a raunchy song about how they are queer and just the same as anybody else.
(b) She dances around the room.
(c) She leaves, with all of the prostitutes following her.
(d) She sings a song about love and devotion.

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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 reprimands him for being so vulgar.
(c) She leaves.
(d) She weeps as she speaks of her principles of compassion.

8. What will happen if the Irish soldier is executed?
(a) The British soldier will be tortured.
(b) The British soldier will be shot.
(c) The British soldier will be freed.
(d) The IRA will launch an attack on the British.

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

10. What does the Officer say when the Soldier says he does not know anything about the business done by the British?
(a) He is a liar.
(b) He will learn shortly when he gets a bullet in the head.
(c) Everyone knows about the business done by the British.
(d) He is not expected to know the business done by the British.

11. Pat tells a lengthy and frequently interrupted story about what?
(a) His life.
(b) How he lost his leg.
(c) How he became a caretaker.
(d) How he joined the IRA.

12. What kind of music is heard?
(a) Irish.
(b) Rap.
(c) Rock and roll.
(d) Pop.

13. 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 tells her to stay away from him.
(d) He warns her to not get attached to the Soldier.

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

15. What crude comment does Meg make to Miss Gilchrist?
(a) Miss Gilchrist is only interested in worshipping Mulleady.
(b) Miss Gilchrist's only principle is her relationship with Mulleady.
(c) Miss Gilchrist only wants to be saved by Mulleady.
(d) Miss Gilchrist loves the Bible for its dirty stories.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Describe the song the Soldier sings.

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

4. What does the Soldier try to convince Meg to ask the Officer?

5. What does Teresa do when she finds out that the Officer never gave the Soldier the cigarettes she brought?

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