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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. What does Boyle ask of Gar once he is in Philadelphia?
(a) He asks Gar to look out for newspapers that may be interested in publishing his poems.
(b) He asks Gar to speak to Lizzy about him.
(c) He asks Gar to look for a job for him.
(d) He asks Gar to write to him.

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

3. What, according to private Gar, is the difference between Ireland and the United States?
(a) One is Catholic, the other is Protestant.
(b) One is the land of customs and conventions and the other is one of materialism.
(c) One is Gar's homeland, the other is a new place.
(d) One is full of mystery, the other is not.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boyle give Gar?

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

3. What was Gar’s and Katie’s plan?

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

5. How does Madge defend SB’s silence?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Master Boyle? How is he different from SB?

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

4. Why did Gar not finish college?

5. When does the action in the play take place?

6. Who makes the decision to tell Katie’s parents about their plan to get married? Do they tell them? Why?

7. How realistic is private Gar’s pretense about public Gar being employed by the owner of the biggest chain of hotels?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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