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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Musgrave order his soldiers to do?
(a) Leave the town.
(b) Bring in the weapons.
(c) Investigate the town.
(d) Find some fire wood.

2. What does the Mayor give Musgrave permission to do?
(a) Recruit.
(b) Drink until midnight.
(c) Strike.
(d) Stay in the town.

3. Who does Musgrave say the soldiers have come to expose?
(a) The colliers.
(b) The mayor.
(c) Billy Hicks.
(d) The parson.

4. What does the Parson think will begin now that the soldiers are in town?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Blasphemy.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Violence.

5. What does the Bargee say the soldiers have come to do?
(a) Stop the strike.
(b) Protect the town.
(c) Sleep the night.
(d) Recruit.

6. Where did the yellow-haired boy go off to?
(a) Australia.
(b) America.
(c) The King's castle.
(d) The war.

7. Who do the soldiers and Mrs. Hitchcock drink a toast to?
(a) Their mothers.
(b) The King.
(c) The Prince.
(d) The Queen.

8. What does Musgrave say Walsh has to do to see the truth?
(a) Smell.
(b) Listen.
(c) Taste.
(d) Watch.

9. Whose business does Sparky say they are on?
(a) The people's.
(b) The King's.
(c) God's.
(d) The Queen's.

10. What does Musgrave say the soldiers' only right is swinging from the end of?
(a) A donkey tail.
(b) An angel wing.
(c) A noose.
(d) A whip.

11. What does Musgrave do as Sparky undresses?
(a) Reads.
(b) Sleeps.
(c) Prays.
(d) Meditates.

12. Who does Sparky say was his friend?
(a) Billy Hicks.
(b) Jackson Jones.
(c) David Hirst.
(d) Rob Jones.

13. Who does Parson hope the soldiers will recruit?
(a) The teenagers.
(b) The drunkards.
(c) The strikers.
(d) The delinquents.

14. Who does Musgrave tell Mrs. Hitchcock not to mention to the other soldiers?
(a) The Mayor.
(b) The Parson.
(c) Annie.
(d) Hicks.

15. What is the main industry in the part of the country the soldiers are visiting?
(a) Coal mining.
(b) Gold mining.
(c) Diamond mining.
(d) Steel mining.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Billy Hicks have a relationship with?

2. What kind of men does Musgrave say he does not want to sign up?

3. What does the Mayor say they will try if his idea fails?

4. What does Musgrave insist he and Walsh are?

5. Who tells the soldiers it is time to close?

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