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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the flashback with Katie, what does Katie ask Gar to do?
(a) She asks him to speak to SB about their plans.
(b) She asks him to make arrangements for their wedding.
(c) She asks him to get her parents’ permission to marry the next week.
(d) She asks him to meet Francis King.

2. Why does Boyle ask Gar for money?
(a) Canon does not pay him his salary.
(b) Gar owes him money.
(c) Boyle is an alcoholic and needs money constantly.
(d) He is planning to travel as well.

3. 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 that he is too sad to speak.
(d) She says she would ask SB.

4. What is the significance of the item Gar finds in his suitcase?
(a) It was printed on the day SB and Maire got married.
(b) It has news about Maire.
(c) It carries news about SB.
(d) It has news about Ireland.

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

6. What is Boyle's worry?
(a) He is worried his poems are not going to become famous.
(b) He is worried about Gar.
(c) He is worried that the priest Canon O'Bryne may sack him.
(d) He misses Maire.

7. What is Master Boyle’s advice?
(a) He asks Gar to forget Ireland.
(b) He asks Gar to remember his friends in Ireland.
(c) He asks Gar to remember his father
(d) He asks Gar to return when possible.

8. Who is Katie?
(a) Katie is Madge’s niece.
(b) Katie is Maire’s sister.
(c) Katie is Gar’s friend whom he almost married.
(d) Katie is SB’s employee.

9. Why did Gar not go to college?
(a) Gar wanted to travel.
(b) He wanted to become a priest.
(c) Gar felt a life of a student was not for him.
(d) He wanted to start his own business.

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

11. What does Boyle mean when he advises Gar to be one hundred percent American?
(a) He wants Gar to become an American citizen.
(b) He asks Gar to not look back at his past.
(c) He wants Gar to return an American.
(d) He wants Gar to learn American fads.

12. How old is Gar?
(a) He is 19.
(b) He is 25.
(c) He is 20.
(d) He is 40.

13. What does public Gar mean when he says “he got ten minutes’ overtime out of my hide” (2)?
(a) Gar is in hiding.
(b) SB worked ten minutes more.
(c) SB has been talking to Gar for more than ten minutes.
(d) SB has made Gar work 10 minutes more.

14. What happy news does Madge share with Gar in Episode 1?
(a) She has been given a raise.
(b) Her niece has given birth to a girl.
(c) SB has decided to reduce her work.
(d) She is changing jobs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do public and private Gar sing "Philadelpha, here I come" together after Boyle leaves, in Episode 1 (36)?

2. What does Boyle give Gar?

3. 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)?

4. How much does SB owe Gar?

5. What was Gar’s and Katie’s plan?

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