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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Pegeen punishes Christy for being friendly to the girls by:
(a) Telling the details of the hanging of a man who killed his da.
(b) Making him scrub the dishes.
(c) Not speaking to him.
(d) Banishing him from her home.

4. What is the most significant plot change in Act II?
(a) Christy receives a new coat from Shawn.
(b) Christy is arrested.
(c) The appearance of Old Mahon.
(d) The Widow Quin helping Shawn.

5. In what way does Christy demonstrate courage in Act II?
(a) He tells the Widow Quin to leave him alone.
(b) He strikes a beggar that is bothering Pegeen.
(c) He professes his love for Pegeen.
(d) He admits his crime to the police.

6. What does the Widow Quin suggest that Old Mahon do?
(a) Stay and rest for a few days.
(b) Follow Christy quickly before the tide comes in.
(c) Pray for him.
(d) Marry her.

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

8. What do the girls from the village want from Christy?
(a) His money.
(b) To punish Pegeen.
(c) His attentions.
(d) His advice.

9. What happens each time Christy tells his story?
(a) It becomes more dramatic.
(b) He adds more lies to it.
(c) He cries.
(d) Another village member wants to marry him.

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

11. Christy's demeanor as he tells his story can be described as which of the following?
(a) Tortured.
(b) Gleeful.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Dramatic.

12. Why has Old Mahon come to Pegeen's home?
(a) To beat his son and bring him home.
(b) To apologize.
(c) To attend Pegeen's wedding.
(d) To find a wife.

13. Where is Christy in actuality while the Widow Quin is taking to Old Mahon?
(a) Under the bed.
(b) Down below at the races.
(c) Behind the door.
(d) At church.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Old Mahon describe Christy's personality?

2. Act II opens with Christy performing what activity?

3. What does Christy see out the window just as he is about to join the races?

4. The character who is most unbending about his or her religious beliefs is:

5. Christy tells the girls and the Widow Quin that his father wanted him to:

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