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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Act II opens with Christy performing what activity?
(a) Polishing his boots.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Polishing Pegeen's boots.
(d) Answering the door to a group of young women.

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

3. The term "whisht" in the character's dialect means:
(a) Whiskers.
(b) Stop talking.
(c) Rest.
(d) Daydreaming.

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

5. What is the mood in Act II?
(a) Silly.
(b) Somber.
(c) Tense.
(d) Mysterious.

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

7. Who is "The Playboy of the Western World?"
(a) Shaneen Keogh
(b) Christy Mahon
(c) Old Mahon
(d) Michael Flaherty

8. Which of the following characters could be described as the most impulsive?
(a) Christy Mahon
(b) Old Mahon
(c) Shawn Keogh
(d) The Widow Quin

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

10. When Pegeen rushes out to tend to her sheep crisis, what does Shawn offer to Christy to leave?
(a) A bribe.
(b) The Widow Quin.
(c) His help.
(d) Excuses.

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

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

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

14. Which character has the most at stake due to the appearance of Christy?
(a) Shawn.
(b) Pegeen.
(c) The Widow Quin.
(d) Old Mahon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Shawn's plan for Christy?

2. When Pegeen warns Christy not to tell everybody of his crime or he might have to leave, he surprises her by:

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

4. Where does the Widow Quin tell Old Mahon that Christy is?

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

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