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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why do public and private Gar sing "Philadelpha, here I come" together after Boyle leaves, in Episode 1 (36)?
(a) It is almost time for the flight when Boyle leaves.
(b) SB tries to stop Gar from leaving.
(c) 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.
(d) Boyle wants to hear the song.

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) Gar is in hiding.
(c) SB has been talking to Gar for more than ten minutes.
(d) SB has made Gar work 10 minutes more.

8. What has Gar been doing all day long on his final day in Ireland?
(a) He has been talking to SB.
(b) He has been fishing.
(c) He has been visiting his friends.
(d) He has been packing flour bags.

9. 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 carries news about SB.
(c) It has news about Maire.
(d) It has news about Ireland.

10. What was Gar’s and Katie’s plan?
(a) They planned to get married at once.
(b) They planned to get SB to support their decision.
(c) They planned to elope together.
(d) They planned to get engaged at Christmas and marry at Easter.

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

12. In the flashback with Katie, what are Gar’s plans for bringing in more income?
(a) He plans on selling eggs directly from the farm.
(b) He plans on asking Katie’s father.
(c) He plans on working twice as hard.
(d) He plans on starting his own business.

13. What does Boyle give Gar?
(a) He gives Gar a belt.
(b) He gives Gar some money.
(c) He gives Gar some old photographs.
(d) Boyle gives Gar a book of his poems.

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

15. What were the ages of Maire and SB when they married?
(a) She was 20 and he was 40.
(b) She was 19 and he was 30.
(c) She was 19 and he was 20.
(d) She was 19 and he was 40.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Madge doing when the play opens?

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

3. Why did Gar not go to college?

4. Why does Gar say that Boyle may have been his father?

5. 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)?

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