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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Julia guess is the cause of what she sees on Tim’s face, when she first sees him at the beginning of "Blue"?
(a) A young rebel called him names and threw rubbish at him.
(b) He ate some of the cake he had made for Julia’s birthday.
(c) He had been in the garage working on his motorcycle.
(d) He cut himself shaving.

2. 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) She is not obligated to stay there.
(b) Up until the baby’s birth.
(c) Six months after the baby’s birth.
(d) A year after the baby’s birth.

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

4. What does Julia say she treasures about Bridie, in "Black (Pages 235-265)"?
(a) Bridie is young and energetic.
(b) Bridie is shy, quiet, and obedient.
(c) Bridie always thinks through her decisions.
(d) Bridie never says no.

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

6. What does Tim get on as Julia mounts her bicycle in "Blue"?
(a) His bicycle.
(b) His horse.
(c) His motorcycle.
(d) His scooter.

7. What does Julia use to check fetal heartbeats?
(a) The stethoscope.
(b) The ear trumpet.
(c) A fetal heart monitor.
(d) A microscope.

8. How did Liam, Tim’s friend, die?
(a) He got caught up in barbed wire.
(b) He got shot in the leg, and the wound got infected.
(c) He died from influenza.
(d) He was shot in the throat.

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

10. As Julia waits for the tram in "Blue," about what does a man sing?
(a) Not wanting to go to work.
(b) Not wanting to go to war.
(c) Not wanting to get married.
(d) Not wanting to catch the flu.

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

12. What is expected of Catholics to do on All Souls’ Day, according to this story?
(a) Visit a graveyard.
(b) Say the novenas.
(c) Say ten Hail Marys.
(d) Fast.

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

14. What is Julia’s response when Bridie asks how many pushes it takes?
(a) There is no rule.
(b) Not many.
(c) Five to Six.
(d) An hour or two of pushes.

15. Where is Dr. Lynn to turn herself in?
(a) The nearest police precinct.
(b) The Dublin Metropolitan Police Headquarters.
(c) The Dublin army base.
(d) Dublin Castle.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Honor White is whispering the Rosary, how does Julia describe the way she is gripping each bead?

2. Who is Miss Ffrench-Mullen?

3. Why does Julia suggest she and Bridie go on the roof?

4. What does Bridie say about the past two days in "Black"?

5. What does Bridie know about the name her parents had given her?

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