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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Hurst and Attercliffe play as they wait?
(a) Billiards.
(b) Roulette.
(c) Pool.
(d) Cards.

2. What does Musgrave describe their mission as?
(a) The free man's duty.
(b) The Christian's duty.
(c) The deserter's duty.
(d) The people's duty.

3. What does the Mayor discuss with the Parson?
(a) The strike.
(b) The soldiers.
(c) The church.
(d) The Queen.

4. What instrument announces the soldiers' arrival?
(a) A gong.
(b) A trumpet.
(c) A drum.
(d) A trombone.

5. What does Mrs. Hitchcock say the men on strike are destroying?
(a) Children and families.
(b) The town's and her own reputation.
(c) Tourism and women.
(d) Business and the town.

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

7. What does the Bargee whisper as Musgrave leaves?
(a) Crazy.
(b) Trouble.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Amen.

8. Who does Hurst have coming to visit him?
(a) Annie.
(b) Walsh.
(c) Mrs. Hitchcock.
(d) Musgrave.

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

10. In what does Mrs. Hitchcock try to convince the parson to intervene?
(a) The argument with the baker.
(b) The coal miner's strike.
(c) The shop keeper's strike.
(d) The argument with the butcher.

11. What kind of men does Musgrave say he does not want to sign up?
(a) Men who are miserable.
(b) Men who have families.
(c) Men who who have no education.
(d) Men who have been forced to join.

12. Who arrives to take the soldiers' crates up the canal?
(a) The captain.
(b) The ferryman.
(c) The second mate.
(d) The bargee.

13. What does Spark come into the bar to ask for?
(a) A telephone.
(b) Rooms.
(c) Beer.
(d) Money.

14. Who tells the Parson the soldiers have arrived?
(a) Mrs. Hitchcock.
(b) Annie.
(c) The Bargee.
(d) Musgrave.

15. What does Mrs. Hitchcock sing a song about?
(a) A yellow-feathered bird.
(b) A yellow-haired boy.
(c) A black crow.
(d) An albino boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Act 1. Scene 3 set?

2. Who does Musgrave say the soldiers have come to expose?

3. What does Attercliff say they have to expose the corruption of?

4. Who does the slow collier dance with?

5. What does Musgrave's long speech remind the soldiers of?

(see the answer keys)

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