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

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

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

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

5. Where do the O’Donnells live?
(a) They live in Dublin, Ireland.
(b) They live in Wales.
(c) They live in London, UK
(d) They live in Ballybeg, Ireland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who can hear private Gar?

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

3. What does Boyle mean when he advises Gar to be one hundred percent American?

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

5. Why did Gar not go to college?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Boyle’s parting advice to Gar?

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. What is the effect of the imagery, “big bugger of a jet, with its snout pointing straight for the States and its tail belching smoke over Ireland" (3) ?

6. When does Katie marry Francis? How does private Gar console public Gar?

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

8. Who is Madge and how old is she?

9. Why is public Gar shaken after Boyle leaves?

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

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