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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is SB O'Donnell?

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)?

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

5. What was Gar’s and Katie’s plan?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does private Gar encourage public Gar in his plans?

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

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

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. 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 parting advice to Gar?

10. 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) ?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the role of Lizzy and the letter that makes Gar plan on leaving Ireland.

Essay Topic 2

Describe how Madge’s perspective could give the plot a different structure. Take into consideration her refusal to take a position.

Essay Topic 3

Stereotypical versions of Ireland and the U.S. are expressed by several characters, including private Gar. These result in defaming one country and having unrealistic expectations of the other. How is this explored in the play?

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