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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. What does Luke convince Meggie to do?
(a) Invite Father Ralph to Drogheda.
(b) Attend every Friday night dance.
(c) Get married.
(d) Run away.

2. What comment does Fiona make that surprises Meggie?
(a) That Frank is her favorite.
(b) That she hates Drogheda.
(c) That Dane is the image of his father, Archbishop de Bricassart.
(d) That she never really loved Paddy.

3. Who does Meggie think Luke looks like?
(a) Father Ralph.
(b) Hal.
(c) Frank.
(d) Paddy.

4. What happens to the land a week after the fire?
(a) Rains soak the area.
(b) The boys chop the remaining trees down.
(c) The burnt area withers even more in the heat.
(d) New growth begins to appear.

5. Who does Archbishop de Bricassart encounter one evening?
(a) A German solder, by the name of Rainer.
(b) The Pope.
(c) Meggie, waiting at St. Peter's.
(d) Jims.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Luke and Meggie honeymoon?

2. Why does Archbishop de Bricassart disagree with the Pope?

3. What does Luke teach Meggie to do?

4. What does Luke first invite Meggie to?

5. What role is Father Ralph about to assume right after Meggie gives birth to her firstborn?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Meggie attend Dane's ordination?

2. What are three major decisions that Luke makes, without consulting Meggie, in the first part of their marriage?

3. In the life of the Cleary family, what two major events take place on September 2, 1945?

4. Who comes to visit Meggie while she is on vacation at Matlock?

5. How does Meggie ensure that Luke will never question the paternity of their child?

6. What are some things that Meggie realizes about Luke?

7. What previously introduced character reappears in Chapter 17, and what is this character's story?

8. What does Meggie think of Luke when she is getting to know him?

9. What happens to the twins in New Guinea?

10. What does Father Ralph do when he is back in Rome?

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