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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. Who are the caretakers?

2. What do Meg and Pat say drove Monsewer half mad?

3. When the sailor shows a handful of notes, what do Meg and Pat comment?

4. Pat has a long history of disagreements with whom?

5. What ironic comment does Pat make, regarding what Monsewar has told him?

Short Essay Questions

1. About what is the article? How do the various characters react?

2. What is this play about?

3. How does Teresa act when she finds out the Officer did not give the Soldier the cigarettes? How does the Soldier respond?

4. What news does Monsewer have for Pat?

5. What is revealed about Mulleady and Meg in the beginning of this scene?

6. What do Pat and Meg think about the kidnapping of the British soldier?

7. What takes place while the Officer is thinking?

8. What happens when Mulleady asks about the shirts Meg was to have laundered?

9. How does Pat feel about the way that Meg talks to him?

10. What happens when Teresa enters the room?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The last scene contains sudden violence.

Part 1) Describe this sudden violence. Why is it so sudden?

Part 2) What is the purpose of this sudden violence? How does it support the theme?

Part 3) What message is sent to the audience through this violence?

Essay Topic 2

Various characters are symbolic.

Part 1) How are the characters symbolic? Why are they each symbolic?

Part 2) How do they evolve throughout the play? What is the purpose of this evolution?

Part 3) What message does the playwright want the audience to take away from these symbolic characters, as well as how they evolve and are developed throughout the play.

Essay Topic 3

The play is filled with stereotypes.

Part 1) How is the play filled with stereotypes? What begins to break down these stereotypes?

Part 2) How are these stereotypes broken down? Why are they broken down?

Part 3) How are these stereotypes seen in real life? Is this a true reflection of real life? Why or why not?

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