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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pegeen's approximate age in the play is:
(a) Fifteen years old.
(b) Twenty five years old.
(c) Fifty years old.
(d) Twenty years old.

2. The ethnic background of the characters in the play is:
(a) Irish.
(b) English.
(c) Welsh.
(d) First generation American.

3. A characteristic of Pegeen's personality that appears often is her:
(a) Kindness.
(b) Feistiness.
(c) Devoutness.
(d) Intelligence.

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

5. When the character, Christy Mahon enters the scene, he is:
(a) Looking for a bride.
(b) Tired, frightened, and dirty.
(c) Looking for the police.
(d) Suffering from a severe gash in his head.

6. The Widow Quin tells Christy that Pegeen is:
(a) Rude.
(b) Engaged to be married.
(c) Not a christian.
(d) A Widow herself.

7. A common greeting amongst the characters is:
(a) God bless you!
(b) For the love of Almighty God!
(c) May the Saints Joseph, Patrick, Bridgid and James have mercy!
(d) The divil a one!

8. A second rivalry in act one involves:
(a) Shawn Keogh and Michael James.
(b) Christy Mahon and Shawn Keogh.
(c) The Widow Quin and Shawn Keogh.
(d) The Old Mahon and Christy Mahon.

9. Pegeen imagines that Christy must have the temperament of:
(a) A plow horse full of patience.
(b) A man filled with blind rage.
(c) A dead fish.
(d) A rattle snake ready to attack its next victim.

10. 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?
(a) Bravery.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Anger.
(d) Joy.

11. Pegeen's father is going out for the evening to:
(a) Visit the Widow Quin.
(b) Church.
(c) Go hunting.
(d) Kate Cassidy's wake.

12. The argument between the Widow Quin and Pegeen involves:
(a) The Widow Quin attempting to take Christy home with her.
(b) The Widow Quin attempting to stay overnight at Pegeen's.
(c) The Widow Quin attempting to take Shawn away from Pegeen.
(d) The Widow Quin attempting to marry Pegeen's father.

13. A "shebeen" is a:
(a) Female of ill repute.
(b) Makeshift country inn.
(c) Fireplace.
(d) Vegetable grown for irish stew.

14. Michael James and his friends Jimmy and Philly are in a hurry to leave so that they can:
(a) Tell the peelers about Christy.
(b) Drink the best stuff at the wake.
(c) Collect a bounty for the body in the ditch.
(d) Get the Bishops blessing for the wedding.

15. Christy Mahon's big secret is that:
(a) He killed his landlord.
(b) He killed his father.
(c) He killed his three wives.
(d) He is wanted for larceny and killing a soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. The term "pot-boy" refers to:

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

3. The length of time covered in Act 1 is:

4. At the end of Act 1, Christy thinks to himself:

5. Shawn reacts to Christy's employment by:

(see the answer keys)

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