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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do public and private Gar sing "Philadelpha, here I come" together after Boyle leaves, in Episode 1 (36)?
(a) Public Gar is caught up in emotions as Boyle leaves and as he remembers Katie. Private Gar makes him focus on the future by singing together.
(b) It is almost time for the flight when Boyle leaves.
(c) Boyle wants to hear the song.
(d) SB tries to stop Gar from leaving.

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

3. How much does SB owe Gar?
(a) He owes him 5 pounds.
(b) He owes 3 pounds and 15 shillings.
(c) He owes him 10 shillings.
(d) He owes him 10 pounds.

4. What is Gar’s full name?
(a) His full name is Garvin O’Connor.
(b) His full name is Garvin O’Donnell.
(c) His full name is Gareth O’Donnell.
(d) His full name is Gareth O’Connor.

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

6. 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)?
(a) Private Gar is fond of Burke.
(b) Private Gar has studied Burke.
(c) Private Gar wishes to see the queen of France.
(d) Private Gar is warning public Gar against getting caught up in memories.

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

8. What, according to private Gar, is the difference between Ireland and the United States?
(a) One is full of mystery, the other is not.
(b) One is Catholic, the other is Protestant.
(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.

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

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

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

12. What does Madge bring in from the scullery in Episode 1?
(a) She brings some cooking pans.
(b) She brings some photos.
(c) She brings in an old suitcase.
(d) She brings some books.

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

14. Who can hear private Gar?
(a) Madge and SB can hear him.
(b) Public Gar can hear him.
(c) SB can hear him.
(d) Madge can hear him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Gar been doing all day long on his final day in Ireland?

2. How does Madge defend SB’s silence?

3. What is the significance of the item Gar finds in his suitcase?

4. What does Boyle give Gar?

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

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