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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The motivation for sending the girls to meet Christy is:
(a) To ask if he really is a murderer.
(b) To spy on him.
(c) The hope that he will like one of them better than Pegeen.
(d) To bring him back to the Widow Quin's house.

2. What is Christy worried about after Old Mahon leaves?
(a) What Pegeen will think of him when she hears the story.
(b) That Old Mahon will return for him.
(c) That he will be late for the games.
(d) That he will be turned in to the police.

3. Which of the following would not be offered in trade for a favor by the characters in the play?
(a) Dung.
(b) Blessings.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Poteen.

4. What does Christy see out the window just as he is about to join the races?
(a) A black cloud.
(b) The peelers.
(c) Old Mahon.
(d) Pegeen kissing Shawn.

5. What is poteen?
(a) Potato stew.
(b) Potato alcohol.
(c) Rancid wine.
(d) Illicit whiskey.

6. The people of Pegeen's village can be characterized as:
(a) Devil worshippers.
(b) Religious zealots.
(c) Peasants.
(d) High society.

7. When Pegeen warns Christy not to tell everybody of his crime or he might have to leave, he surprises her by:
(a) Saying that he made it all up.
(b) Fainting.
(c) Telling her she is worrying needlessly.
(d) Speaking to her romantically.

8. When Act II opens, what is the time of day?
(a) High noon.
(b) Morning light.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Afternoon tea time.

9. Pegeen's village is located:
(a) On the coast.
(b) In the desert.
(c) In a valley.
(d) In the mountains.

10. When the village girls come to meet Christy, the one item they do not bring him is?
(a) Bacon.
(b) Butter.
(c) Cake.
(d) Duck eggs.

11. The character who is most unbending about his or her religious beliefs is:
(a) Michael Flaherty.
(b) Christy.
(c) Shawn.
(d) Pegeen.

12. Christy tells the Widow Quin:
(a) She is too old for him.
(b) He only has love for Pegeen.
(c) He will think about it.
(d) He negotiates for more gifts.

13. Christy tells the girls and the Widow Quin that his father wanted him to:
(a) Wed the young girl next door so that he would have a maid.
(b) Move out.
(c) Plow his four acres of potatoes without a horse.
(d) Marry an old, overweight, half blind, widow of ill repute.

14. What does Christy say his father did just before Christy struck him?
(a) Grounded him.
(b) Cursed at him.
(c) Punched him.
(d) Swung a scythe at him.

15. When Christy comes out of the back room, the girls:
(a) Scream and run away.
(b) Tell him he should marry the Widow Quin.
(c) Welcome him and offer him food they have brought him.
(d) Condemn him for his lack of Godly morals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girls from the village want from Christy?

2. During the girls' discussion of the boots, Sara Tansey:

3. The term "whisht" in the character's dialect means:

4. Which character in the story seems to have the most self-doubt?

5. When the village girls arrive, they interrupt Christy as he is:

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