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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 the officer do when Pat says he needs to go out to get the money before he will allow the prisoner to stay?

2. About what else do Meg and Pat argue?

3. Why can Mulleady not leave with Miss Gilchrist?

4. This person who will soon be arriving is what?

5. Of what is Monsewer the owner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Miss Gilchrist do for the Soldier?

2. Why does Meg appear? What does the Officer think of this?

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

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

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

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

7. What takes place between the Soldier and Teresa when they are first alone?

8. What takes place while Teresa is under the bed?

9. What is revealed about the boarding house?

10. With what does Teresa rush in?

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

Pat makes a comment about H-bombs.

Part 1) What is the comment that he makes? Why does he make this comment?

Part 2) How is this comment important to the play and the message sent by the playwright to the audience?

Part 3) What is the connection between this comment and the soldier's song at the end of the act? What is the purpose for this connection?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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