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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Hurst remind Musgrave is coming?
(a) The National Guard.
(b) The Marines.
(c) The police.
(d) Dragoons.

2. Who runs into the stables when he hears Sparky scream?
(a) Musgrave.
(b) The bargee.
(c) The constable.
(d) The parson.

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

4. Who does Hurst think is shouting and whistling?
(a) The women and children.
(b) The constable and the night watchmen.
(c) The parson and the mayor.
(d) The colliers and the Bargee.

5. What two people does Musgrave say he wants to kill first?
(a) The bargee and the slow collier.
(b) The mayor and the parson.
(c) Annie and Mrs. Hitchcock.
(d) The constable and Walsh.

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

7. Who does the Bargee refer to himself as?
(a) Dirty Joe.
(b) Jumping Joe.
(c) Old Joe.
(d) Cutthroat Joe.

8. What does Attercliffe say he wished he never did?
(a) Became a soldier.
(b) Left home.
(c) Listened to Musgrave.
(d) Believed in God.

9. Which two characters are in prison?
(a) Attercliffe and Musgrave.
(b) Hurst and Attercliffe.
(c) Sparky and Hicks.
(d) The bargee and Walsh.

10. What does the constable ask Musgrave?
(a) How long he intends to stay in the town.
(b) How much his men had to drink.
(c) What he has in the coach house.
(d) Where Sparky is.

11. Why does Musgrave say Billy Hicks was killed?
(a) He followed his own path.
(b) He did not trust God.
(c) It had been decided.
(d) He was stupid.

12. Who did Attercliffe's wife leave him for?
(a) The candlemaker.
(b) The baker.
(c) A greengrocer.
(d) The butcher.

13. What does Attercliffe wonder if he will be able to start?
(a) An orchard.
(b) A family.
(c) A church.
(d) A war.

14. What does Musgrave tell the crown he is there to say?
(a) The people's word.
(b) Propaganda.
(c) The truth.
(d) God's word.

15. What does Musgrave say all the love in the world won't cleanse?
(a) A soldier's uniform.
(b) A man's past.
(c) The Earth's soil.
(d) A murderer's hands.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mrs. Hitchcock bring for Musgrave?

3. What does Musgrave say authority urges people to do?

4. What instrument does Hurst play in Act 2, Scene 3?

5. What does Attercliff tell Musgrave they will be hung higher than?

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