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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. As the parade passes, what does Miss Gilchrist do to the Soldier?
(a) She glares at him.
(b) She reads an article from a British paper to him.
(c) She prays for him.
(d) She asks if he would like to watch the parade.

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

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

7. How old is the Soldier?
(a) Nineteen.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Twenty-five.

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

9. About what does the Soldier tease Teresa?
(a) Wanting to get caught.
(b) Wanting to hide.
(c) Wanting to stay with him.
(d) Wanting to jump out of the window.

10. When Teresa says she was just dusting, what does Meg say?
(a) She is shocked.
(b) Teresa did nothing wrong.
(c) She also was just dusting.
(d) Teresa is a sinner.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mulleady reads some of the article aloud, what does Pat say?

2. How do the others respond when the Soldier asks whether any of the others would let him free?

3. What does the Officer demand?

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

5. Pat tells a lengthy and frequently interrupted story about what?

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