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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who comes running in looking for Manus in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) Doalty.
(b) Maire.
(c) Owen.
(d) Sarah.

3. In Act 3, from where are the men to whom Manus tells Owen that he'll write as soon as he can in Act 3?
(a) Ca na Bhurn.
(b) The British Army.
(c) Inis Meadhon.
(d) The national school.

4. What is Doalty carrying when he enters in Act 1?
(a) A milk pail.
(b) A surveyer pole.
(c) Flowers.
(d) A baby lamb.

5. What does Lancey say the army will do if Yolland is not found in 24 hours?
(a) Shoot the townspeople.
(b) Burn down the village.
(c) Burn down the church.
(d) Shoot all the livestock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word "verecund" mean?

2. What poet does Yolland say he lived three miles from in Act 2, Scene 1?

3. Where were the two men from who spoke to Manus in Act 2, Scene 1?

4. Who is the Justice of the Peace?

5. Maire's aunt who taught her the one line of English she knows?

(see the answer key)

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