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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language does Maire say she knows better than English?
(a) French.
(b) Italian.
(c) Greek.
(d) Latin.

2. In Act 1, Jimmy ask Manus who he would choose between whose three daughters?
(a) Homer's.
(b) Dionysus'.
(c) Zeus'.
(d) Thor's.

3. Until what age are you required to stay in school at the new national schools?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Thirteen.

4. Whose baby was christened in the morning of Act 1?
(a) Nellie O'Keefe's.
(b) Nellie Ruadh's.
(c) Millie Reardon's.
(d) Sarah O'Conner's.

5. What does the word "verecund" mean?
(a) Boring.
(b) Intelligent.
(c) Outgoing.
(d) Humble.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what languages is Jimmy fluent (in addition to Irish)?

2. When does Maire say her passage money for America came?

3. Jimmy reads, "Ulysses went forth through the harbour and through the woodland to the place where Athene had shown him he could find the good" what?

4. What is the big machine the British soldiers take everywhere with them?

5. Who has Hugh spoken to in the morning in Act 1?

(see the answer key)

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