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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where were two of the soldiers' horses were found at the bottom of the cliffs?
(a) Machaire Buidhe.
(b) Mullach.
(c) Carraig an Phoill.
(d) Cnoc na nGabhar.

2. What is the one word that Jimmy knows in English?
(a) Apple.
(b) Bosom.
(c) Maypole.
(d) Three.

3. Who does Jimmy compare to a goddess in Act 1?
(a) Grania.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Emily.
(d) Maria.

4. Where is the new national school being built in the play?
(a) Cnoc na nGabhar.
(b) Loch an Iubhar.
(c) Poll na gCaorach.
(d) Carraig an Phoill.

5. Of what female does Jimmy speak to Manus from his reading in Act 1?
(a) Lady Macbeth.
(b) Electra.
(c) Gertrude.
(d) Athene.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had asked Manus to write to her sister in Act 1?

2. Who translates for Captain Lancey when he comes to the school?

3. Sarah's community considers her to be which of the following?

4. What language will the new national schools teach?

5. What does Doalty say that Jimmy knows the first book of by heart in Act 1?

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