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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. How did Monsewer choose his title?

2. What circumstances do Meg and Pat discuss?

3. When she is gone, what does Monsewer tell Pat?

4. What does Pat say about the tenants' money?

5. What does his missing leg have to do with his conversation with Meg?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the scene end?

2. What does Pat tell the Soldier about his situation?

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

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

5. What happens when Teresa enters the room?

6. What does the Officer ask about Teresa? What is Pat's response?

7. How does the play end?

8. What does the Soldier do as he enters the scene?

9. What does Pat tell Teresa to do? How will he reward her? How does she respond?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The play makes several points about religion.

Part 1) How is religion brought up in this play?

Part 2) What does this story say about religion? How does this reflect the centuries old tension between Ireland and England?

Part 3) Is there conflict between religion and patriotism? Why or why not? Does this type of conflict exist anywhere else in the world? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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