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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. What does Meg tell Mulleady as she chases him out?

2. What does Pat do when Colette takes the money?

3. Why is this person playing the bagpipes?

4. What does Teresa promise?

5. What circumstances do Meg and Pat discuss?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Meg and Pat think about the treaty that was signed?

2. What transitions into the first scene?

3. Of what does the Soldier try to convince Meg?

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

5. What is revealed about the boarding house?

6. How does the conversation between Teresa and the Soldier end?

7. What takes place while the Officer is thinking?

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

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

10. What news does Monsewer have for Pat?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Act 3, Part 2 is climactic.

Part 1) Describe this section. How is it climactic?

Part 2) What purpose does this section serve? How has the vaudeville feel of the play affected this climactic section?

Part 3) How does this climactic section relate to real life? What is the purpose of this?

Essay Topic 2

An historical point about Queen Victoria is made.

Part 1) What is the point? Why is it made?

Part 2) What does this story reveal about Ireland at the time of this play?

Part 3) How has this event created tension in Ireland? How has this event affected the Irish people as well as others around the world?

Essay Topic 3

There is a sense of vaudeville or music hall.

Part 1) How is this play like a vaudeville or music hall show?

Part 2) What is the playwright's purpose for using this style?

Part 3) Is this stylistic choice successful? Why or why not?

Part 4) If you could change anything about this play, what would it be, and why?

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