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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Episode 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is SB’s question to Gar when he comes in for tea?
(a) He asks if Gar wants to change his plans.
(b) He asks where Madge was.
(c) He asks how much Gar has to be paid.
(d) He asks how many coils of barbed wire had come in the mail van.

2. In the flashback with Katie, why does Gar not do as he is asked by Katie?
(a) He is afraid.
(b) He changes his mind.
(c) He believes that Katie’s marriage to Francis is fixed.
(d) He wants to speak with SB first.

3. What, according to private Gar, is the difference between Ireland and the United States?
(a) One is Catholic, the other is Protestant.
(b) One is full of mystery, the other is not.
(c) One is Gar's homeland, the other is a new place.
(d) One is the land of customs and conventions and the other is one of materialism.

4. Why does Gar say that Boyle may have been his father?
(a) Boyle is the same age as his father.
(b) Boyle loved his mother a long time back. Had they married, Boyle would have been Gar's father.
(c) Boyle is related to Gar.
(d) Boyle is a father figure to Gar.

5. Who are the Gallagher girls?
(a) They are Lizzy and Maire.
(b) They are Maire, Lizzy, Una, Agnes and Rose.
(c) They are Katie and her sister.
(d) They are Madge and her niece.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is private Gar infuriated by SB’s routine talk about work?

2. What does public Gar mean when he says “he got ten minutes’ overtime out of my hide” (2)?

3. How does Madge defend SB’s silence?

4. In the flashback with Katie, what does Katie ask Gar to do?

5. Why does Boyle ask Gar for money?

(see the answer key)

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