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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what else do Meg and Pat argue?

2. What does the officer tell Meg and Teresa to do?

3. As the IRA officer inspects the books, what does he say?

4. Of what is Monsewer the owner?

5. What do Pat and Meg talk briefly about when Monsewer leaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the scene end?

2. How does Miss Gilchrist respond when the others angrily ask her about her name?

3. What is revealed about the Soldier?

4. How does Meg respond to Pat's comment about the house being little more than a brothel? How does he reassure her?

5. What happens when Teresa enters the room?

6. How do Teresa and Meg feel about Monsewer?

7. What does Monsewer want to do with the Soldier? To what does this lead?

8. What do the characters say about the Bible and Miss Gilchrist's faith?

9. When Meg returns, about what do she and Pat argue?

10. What is this play about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The play's ultimate thematic point has to do with a universal human condition.

Part 1) What is this universal condition? How does it affect everyone?

Part 2) How have you, personally, been affected by this universal human condition?

Part 3) Do you agree with this theme? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Princess Grace makes a comment about the censor.

Part 1) What is the censor? What is the censor's purpose?

Part 2) How does this affect Ireland?

Part 3) How does it increase tension between Ireland and England? Are censors used in other parts of the world? Do they create such tension? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

There is a feeling of suspense at several points throughout this play.

Part 1) Describe two of these points. Why does this suspense exist?

Part 2) How is this suspense affected by the vaudeville feel of the play? What is the purpose of the vaudeville feel of the play in regards to the suspense in this play?

Part 3) How does this suspense affect the reader or audience member? Why?

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