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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Pegeen's formal name is:
(a) Widow Quin.
(b) Sara Tansey.
(c) Margaret Flaherty.
(d) Pegeen Mike.

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

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

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

6. Act 1 begins with Pegeen:
(a) Writing a list of supplies for her father's wedding.
(b) Writing a request for wedding supplies.
(c) Daydreaming about her wedding.
(d) Giving Shawn a list of wedding supplies.

7. Pegeen attempts to discredit the Widow Quin by accusing her of:
(a) Poaching chickens.
(b) Being a spy for Father Reilly.
(c) Killing her father.
(d) Burying her husband.

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

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

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

11. The responsibility of barkeep in Michael James' establishment falls to:
(a) Michael James
(b) His wife.
(c) Shawn
(d) Pegeen

12. 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) Joy.
(b) Bravery.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Anger.

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

14. Pegeen's relationship with her father can be described as:
(a) Loving.
(b) One sided.
(c) Amiable.
(d) Antagonistic.

15. Which of the following characters does not appear in Act 1?
(a) Jimmy Farrell
(b) Margaret Flaherty
(c) Philly Cullen
(d) Old Mahon

Short Answer Questions

1. There is a rivalry for Christy's attentions between:

2. The Widow Quin tells Christy that Pegeen is:

3. When the character, Christy Mahon enters the scene, he is:

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

5. Shawn Keogh's nickname is:

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