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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Pegeen punishes Christy for being friendly to the girls by:
(a) Banishing him from her home.
(b) Telling the details of the hanging of a man who killed his da.
(c) Making him scrub the dishes.
(d) Not speaking to him.

3. Christy describes himself to Pegeen and the men as:
(a) A ladies man.
(b) A simple, God fearing, farm boy.
(c) His Mother's favorite.
(d) A Godforsaken orphan.

4. Pegeen's wedding is on hold until her fiance receives:
(a) A job.
(b) An endowment.
(c) Dispensation from the Holy Father.
(d) Her father's blessing.

5. What do both Shawn and Michael James claim to hear from a ditch on the side of the road that evening?
(a) Shots.
(b) A rabid dog growling.
(c) Someone groaning.
(d) A wolf howling.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Christy comes out of the back room, the girls:

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

3. The motivation for sending the girls to meet Christy is:

4. At the end of Act II, Christy is summoned by:

5. A literary term for Pegeen's warning to Christy about what will happen if he keeps telling his story is?

(see the answer key)

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