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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 does Madge bring in from the scullery in Episode 1?

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

3. What does Boyle give Gar?

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

5. How does Madge defend SB’s silence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the flashback that captures the night when Katie and public Gar planned their marriage reveal about Katie’s objections?

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

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

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

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

6. Why is public Gar shaken after Boyle leaves?

7. When does private Gar taunt public Gar with memories of Katie and why?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on symbols in the play and their function in bringing out character, setting and theme.

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

Examine Gar’s relationship with Katie in the past and the present. How have things changed? What does that say about Gar?

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