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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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 changes his mind.
(c) He believes that Katie’s marriage to Francis is fixed.
(d) He is afraid.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do private and public Gar do together after Madge leaves in Episode 1?

3. In the flashback with Katie, what is Katie’s concern?

4. How old is Gar?

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)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is SB’s nightly routine? Why does private Gar mock him for it?

2. How does Madge interpret SB’s silence as his son plans to leave?

3. In what way are the reactions of private and public Gar different as they remember Katie?

4. What does public Gar mean when he says “on my last day with him he got ten minutes’ overtime out of my hide” (2)?

5. Why does public Gar always assume a surly gruffness when speaking to his father?

6. What is in the suitcase Madge brings in and what is its significance?

7. Why did Gar not finish college?

8. What is the significance of private Gar’s observation, “it’s all about to begin. It’s all over” (3)?

9. What is Boyle’s gift to Gar as he prepares to leave? What does he ask for?

10. How does private Gar try to bring out the difference between public Gar and SB?

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