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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Annie tell Sparky about?
(a) Her relationship with Hicks.
(b) Her abusive father.
(c) Her abusive step mother.
(d) Her religious background.

2. What does Musgrave shout out as Annie and Sparky embrace?
(a) Help.
(b) Stop.
(c) Fire.
(d) Rape.

3. What does Attercliffe say you cannot cure by further whoring?
(a) AIDS.
(b) The pox.
(c) The measles.
(d) Cancer.

4. What does Walsh tell Musgrave and his men to do?
(a) Leave the town.
(b) Hang themsleves.
(c) Go back to the army.
(d) Turn themselves in.

5. What does Attercliffe sing a song about?
(a) A soldier shooting his friend.
(b) A soldier's girl having an affair.
(c) A soldier going back to his hometown.
(d) A soldier giving a girl a rose.

6. Who does Mrs. HItchcock say has got life right?
(a) The town.
(b) Musgrave.
(c) The government.
(d) Annie.

7. What does Annie sit with in her lap?
(a) Billy's skeleton.
(b) A beer.
(c) A Gatling gun.
(d) Sparky's photograph.

8. What does Musgrave say his mission is?
(a) To spread God's word of peace.
(b) To cure the madness of sending people to war.
(c) To find people willing to die.
(d) To stop the government abusing the lives of young men.

9. Whose bones are on the flagpole?
(a) Hicks'.
(b) Sparky's.
(c) Mrs. Hitchcock's.
(d) Annie's.

10. What are the soldiers' boxes draped with?
(a) Garbage bags and bed sheets.
(b) Coats and string.
(c) Flags and rope.
(d) Army uniform and ribbon.

11. What does Mrs. Hitchcock say Musgrave brought to the town?
(a) His soldier's mind.
(b) A different kind of war.
(c) Senseless hatred.
(d) His mental problems.

12. What does Sparky say he is covering up by laughing and joking?
(a) His loneliness.
(b) His serious nature.
(c) His sense of not belonging.
(d) His fear and grief.

13. What does the Bargee say Musgrave and his men should pay attention to?
(a) The butcher's shop.
(b) The coach house.
(c) The town hall.
(d) The worker's union.

14. Who does Musgrave say the dead soldier was killed by?
(a) Anti-British subversives.
(b) Anti-war subversives.
(c) Fascists.
(d) Communists.

15. Who arrives to wake Musgrave from his nightmare?
(a) Sparky.
(b) The bargee.
(c) Mrs. Hitchcock.
(d) Annie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Walsh say is the proof anybody needs of what life is like as a soldiers?

2. Why does Walsh think soldiers get what they deserve?

3. Who does Mrs. Hitchcock run in to the inn panicking about?

4. Why does the Bargee say people are trying to get into the coach house?

5. Where is Hurst beating his drum at the beginning of Act 3, Part 1?

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