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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language will the new national schools teach?
(a) Latin.
(b) English.
(c) Irish.
(d) English and Irish.

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

3. Sarah enters and sees what in the end of Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Maire and Yolland weeping.
(b) Maire and Yolland kissing.
(c) Maire and Yolland laughing.
(d) Maire and Yolland talking.

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

5. Manus asks if who is no longer coming to classes in Act 1?
(a) Doalty.
(b) Bridgett.
(c) Sarah.
(d) The Donnelly twins.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Doalty, there are two men up the road looking for whom in Act 2, Scene 1?

2. In what town does Translations take place?

3. What does Yolland do to try to make himself be understood by Maire in Act 2, Scene 2?

4. In Act 2, Scene 2, Maire wonders whether her aunt taught her something which is what?

5. What is the Irish word for "beach"?

(see the answer key)

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