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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following concepts best fit the play?
(a) Life or death situations.
(b) Good versus evil.
(c) Stereotyping.
(d) Love scorned.

4. Which character can be described as a character foil for Pegeen?
(a) The Widow Quin.
(b) Christy.
(c) Shawn.
(d) James Flaherty.

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

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

7. What is Pegeen's reaction when she enters her home to find the village girls toasting Christy and the Widow Quin?
(a) She is not pleased.
(b) She chases them out with a broom.
(c) She tries to get them to take Christy with them.
(d) She is thankful for their help.

8. The Widow Quin enters the scene and suggests that he tell all of them his story while:
(a) She stalls for time.
(b) They make him breakfast.
(c) Michael James sleeps off his hangover.
(d) Pegeen sends for the police.

9. Which character tells the village girls about Christy and sends them to meet him?
(a) The Widow Quin.
(b) Pegeen.
(c) Father Reilly.
(d) Shawn.

10. Where does the Widow Quin tell Old Mahon that Christy is?
(a) Gone over the hills to catch a steamer.
(b) Back home to turn himself in.
(c) Down to the shore to play in the games.
(d) She has never seen him.

11. When Christy and Pegeen talk about what their life might be like together, they are:
(a) Cautious.
(b) Realistic.
(c) Preparing to run away together.
(d) Fantasizing.

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

13. The majority of the characters' dialogues include:
(a) Blessing the Lord.
(b) Prose.
(c) Exaggeration.
(d) Fowl language.

14. At the end of Act II, Christy is summoned by:
(a) Father Reilly.
(b) The village girls.
(c) Pegeen.
(d) The peelers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Christy worried about after Old Mahon leaves?

2. The conflict that appears in Act II is:

3. What is Shawn's plan for Christy?

4. What is the most significant plot change in Act II?

5. What is Christy's reaction to his father?

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