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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is private Gar infuriated by SB’s routine talk about work?
(a) SB does not pay him.
(b) SB asks him not to go.
(c) Gar is leaving the next morning, yet SB has nothing to say about it.
(d) SB pays him less than due.

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

3. What do private and public Gar do together after Madge leaves in Episode 1?
(a) They get into a fight.
(b) They decide to take the day off.
(c) They discuss SB.
(d) They roleplay and fantasize their escape from Ireland.

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

5. What does Boyle ask of Gar once he is in Philadelphia?
(a) He asks Gar to write to him.
(b) He asks Gar to speak to Lizzy about him.
(c) He asks Gar to look for a job for him.
(d) He asks Gar to look out for newspapers that may be interested in publishing his poems.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to private Gar, is the difference between Ireland and the United States?

2. Why does private Gar quote Edmund Burke’s lines, “It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France…at Versailles” (12)?

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

4. What is Gar's mood in the beginning of the play?

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

(see the answer key)

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