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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 Madge doing when the play opens?
(a) She is talking to SB.
(b) She is visiting her niece.
(c) She is cleaning Gar's shirts.
(d) She is laying the table for tea.

2. 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 related to Gar.
(c) Boyle is the same age as his father.
(d) Boyle is a father figure to Gar.

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

4. Where do the O’Donnells live?
(a) They live in Wales.
(b) They live in London, UK
(c) They live in Ballybeg, Ireland.
(d) They live in Dublin, Ireland.

5. How does Madge defend SB’s silence?
(a) She points out that Gar should speak first.
(b) She says SB will speak to Gar when he pays him his wages.
(c) She says she would ask SB.
(d) She says that he is too sad to speak.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. What is SB’s question to Gar when he comes in for tea?

3. How much does SB owe Gar?

4. What does Boyle ask of Gar once he is in Philadelphia?

5. Why did Gar not go to college?

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