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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. How does Ben Burton perceive the United States?

2. Who are Gar's friends?

3. In Episode 2, what does public Gar do once Boyle leaves?

4. Why does Aunt Lizzy say, "Typical Irish" (47)?

5. What is the significance of the day Aunt Lizzy and Uncle Conal visited Gar?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lizzy describe in the flashback in Episode 2?

2. How did Ben Burton help Lizzy and Con?

3. Who are Gar's friends?

4. Why does Madge have an outburst seeing SB after Gar has left for the pub?

5. Who is Ben Burton?

6. When does Aunt Lizzy say Gar will start working and where?

7. Where do public and private Gar plan to go later that night in Episode 2?

8. What, according to Lizzy, is the difference between Ireland and the United States?

9. What likely makes public Gar accept Lizzy’s offer?

10. What does Lizzy mean by her remark “typical Irish” (47)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe how inner conflict in the protagonist is explored through private and public Gar in Philadelphia, Here I Come. Analyze how two different personalities are brought out through this mechanism. How does this help us understand the whole Gar?

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

Explore the theme of escape in the play and how it applies to Gar’s wish to be away from the people in his life and his wish to leave Ireland. Take into consideration the context of Ireland in the 1960s.

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