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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of Act 1, Pegeen is complaining because:
(a) Her father is drunk.
(b) She is getting too old to find a husband.
(c) She doesn't want to be alone in the house overnight.
(d) Shawn won't remove his boots.

2. The most significant conflict at the end of Act 1 is:
(a) The Widow Quin wants to take Christy home.
(b) Pegeen is flirting with Christy when she is engaged to someone else.
(c) Christy has run away from home.
(d) Michael James has had too much to drink at the wake.

3. Christy responds to Pegeen with, "We're alike so" after she tells him:
(a) She is going to kill her father.
(b) She wants to marry young.
(c) She wants to get married.
(d) She can't wait to leave town.

4. When Pegeen asks Christy if he is attracting many girls after telling his story, he replies:
(a) "Hundreds."
(b) "Yes, they won't leave me be."
(c) "No, just the Widow Quin."
(d) "I haven't told my story no place till this night."

5. Michael offers Christy a job as:
(a) A peeler.
(b) A pall bearer.
(c) A pot boy.
(d) A delivery boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. A "shebeen" is a:

2. The term "peelers" refers to:

3. When Pegeen says to Shawn, "Go on, then, to Father Reilly, and let him put you in the holy brotherhoods, and leave that lad to me," what emotion is she displaying?

4. Pegeen is like her father in that they are both:

5. In his first conversation with Pegeen, Shawn's character is revealed as that of a:

(see the answer key)

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