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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much was Bridie paid, when the home sent her out to work?
(a) A farthing.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Half a pound.
(d) Five shillings.

2. What does Bridie tell Julia her job is, her fight?
(a) To save babies and their mothers.
(b) To adopt babies.
(c) To bear babies.
(d) To create a home for babies and their mothers.

3. When a local family would request a child for the weekend, the child would receive sweets or pennies for doing what was requested by the father?
(a) A farm father.
(b) A holiday father.
(c) A penny father.
(d) A weekend father.

4. What does Julia mean when she says she palpates Mary's abdomen?
(a) She massages Mary's abdomen.
(b) She forcefully pushes Mary's abdomen.
(c) She feels it with her hands.
(d) She listens to the baby's heartbeat.

5. Does inserting a catheter in Mary help progress labor?
(a) Yes.
(b) Somewhat.
(c) A little, but only at first.
(d) No.

6. When Julia gives Bridie her watch, she is still holding onto a chain, which she calls what?
(a) A link of friendship.
(b) A tight rope.
(c) A taut umbilicus.
(d) A strong lifeline.

7. What is the translation of the song Dr. Lynn listens to that is called Liebestod?
(a) Freeing death.
(b) Lovely life.
(c) Love and death at the same moment.
(d) Love and life.

8. After Bridie told her story in "Black," how does she describe herself?
(a) Sinful.
(b) Cleansed.
(c) Dirty.
(d) Refreshed.

9. What does Julia tie near Mary’s head for help during labor?
(a) A bell.
(b) An IV bag.
(c) Her Rosary beads.
(d) A long towel.

10. Why is Groyne against women getting the vote?
(a) They are not smart enough.
(b) They are too naive.
(c) They would plot against men.
(d) They do not get drafted and risk dying in war.

11. From where does Julia’s second birthday gift come?
(a) Spain.
(b) Italy.
(c) France.
(d) Portugal.

12. How long does a woman have to do housework and mind the little ones to work off the costs of staying at the mother-and-baby house, if she hasn’t been able to pay?
(a) Up until the baby’s birth.
(b) She is not obligated to stay there.
(c) Six months after the baby’s birth.
(d) A year after the baby’s birth.

13. What is Julia’s response to Mary, when she asks if labor will be much longer?
(a) I do not know.
(b) Hopefully not.
(c) Yes, it will still be awhile.
(d) No.

14. What policing force follows Bridie into the ward?
(a) The Irish Republican Army.
(b) The British Army.
(c) The Dublin Terrorist Task Force.
(d) The Dublin Metropolitan Police.

15. Julia compares her small pebble of pain on the scale against what of Bridie’s?
(a) Bridie's rocks.
(b) Bridie's mountains.
(c) Bridie's boulders.
(d) Bridie's peaks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the second birthday package for Julia?

2. For whom was Bridie named?

3. What does Bridie mean by the term nurse-child?

4. What holiday does Sister Luke remind everyone is celebrated on the first of November?

5. What time is actually more perilous to the health of a woman than the week before delivery?

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