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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 get married.
(c) She can't wait to leave town.
(d) She wants to marry young.

3. The length of time covered in Act 1 is:
(a) A fortnight.
(b) The period of Pegeen's youth.
(c) One evening.
(d) One week.

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

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

6. As Michael James meets and converses with Christy, he addresses him as:
(a) Divil boy.
(b) Queer lad.
(c) Mister honey.
(d) Stranger.

7. One of Christy favorite pastimes after working hard all day on the farm is:
(a) Sneaking up on ducks while they are sleeping at night.
(b) To flirt with girls.
(c) To poach rabbits in the dark.
(d) Searching for the walking dead.

8. What does Michael James expect Shawn to do in Michael's absence?
(a) Fetch the Widow Quin.
(b) Marry Pegeen.
(c) Attend the wake.
(d) Keep Pegeen company.

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

10. Pegeen is like her father in that they are both:
(a) Conniving.
(b) Sarcastic.
(c) Short.
(d) Kind hearted.

11. Shawn reacts to Christy's employment by:
(a) Threatening to kill Christy.
(b) Calling Christy a liar.
(c) Offering to stay with Pegeen.
(d) Praying.

12. Once she is alone with Christy, Pegeen spends a great deal of time:
(a) Discussing her engagement with Shawn.
(b) Asking him about his old girlfriends.
(c) Sweet talking him.
(d) Discussing her plot to kill her father.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following characters does not appear in Act 1?

2. Christy tells Pegeen that his father:

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

4. Christy has not been caught for the murder so far because:

5. The play was first published in the year:

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