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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tells Bargee to calm down?
(a) Musgrave.
(b) Hurst.
(c) Attercliffe.
(d) Sparky.

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

3. What does Musgrave insist he and Walsh are?
(a) Friends.
(b) Enemies.
(c) Brothers.
(d) Animals.

4. What kind of trick does Sparky show Annie?
(a) A money trick.
(b) A paper trick.
(c) A card trick.
(d) A drink trick.

5. Who tells the soldiers it is time to close?
(a) The parson.
(b) The Bargee.
(c) Mrs. Hitchcock.
(d) Annie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Musgrave invite the colliers?

2. In what does Mrs. Hitchcock try to convince the parson to intervene?

3. Where did the yellow-haired boy go off to?

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

5. What does Mrs. Hitchcock say the men on strike are destroying?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the mayor's plans?

2. What does the parson say about the army in his speech?

3. What does the Bargee tell Musgrave in Act 2, Scene 3, Part 2?

4. Why does Musgrave refuse to recruit men who have caused tension in the town?

5. How does the mayor want Musgrave to recruit soldiers?

6. What does Attercliffe sing about at the end of the play?

7. What does Musgrave pray for at the end of Act 1, Scene 3?

8. How do Musgrave and Attercliffe try to stop Hurst?

9. Why does Hurst blame people like the mayor and parson for war?

10. How does Musgrave think they can make the Collier's hate disappear?

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