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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 Pat promise to sing?

2. Why is this person playing the bagpipes?

3. As he comes in, the Soldier does what?

4. What do they do when music comes on the radio?

5. Pat comes back in with Monsewer and Meg tells him what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What transitions into the first scene?

2. What story does Pat tell, after the Soldier demands to know what he did to deserve this treatment?

3. What do Meg and Pat say about money?

4. For what does the Soldier ask? Does he get it? Why or why not?

5. What takes place in the conversation between Teresa and the Soldier?

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

7. What does the IRA officer come in and do?

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

9. What does Pat have to say about his first meeting with Monsewer?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

It is difficult to understand this play without some idea of the long-standing battle waged by the IRA for Ireland's independence from Great Britain.

Part 1) Describe this battle, based on class discussions and information from the play.

Part 2) What does this play reveal about this battle?

Part 3) Based on this play, how successful is the IRA? Why?

Part 4) How are the Irish and British of today affected by this battle? How does it also affect others outside this part of the world?

Essay Topic 2

The concept of "prisoner" is discussed.

Part 1) Who are the prisoners in this story? How are they prisoners?

Part 2) How is this concept explored in this story? Why?

Part 3) What is the author's purpose for exploring the concept of prisoner?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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