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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hugh tell Maire he will teach her in the end of the play?
(a) Irish history.
(b) English.
(c) Latin.
(d) Greek.

2. What word does Maire ask Yolland for the meaning of in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Forever.
(b) Yesterday.
(c) Always.
(d) Eternally.

3. What is the music from the dance replaced with as Maire and Yolland enter in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Crickets chirping.
(b) Guitar music.
(c) Piano music.
(d) Harp music.

4. What does Maire stoop down and pick up to show Yolland in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) A twig.
(b) A leaf.
(c) A rock.
(d) Clay.

5. What does Maire call Yolland in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Lieutenant George.
(b) Lieutenant Yolland.
(c) Michael.
(d) Yolland.

6. Who is playing music in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Fiddler O'Conner.
(b) Fiddler McManus.
(c) Fiddler Warren.
(d) Fiddler O'Shea.

7. What else is the new head master at the new school skilled at in Act 3?
(a) Baking.
(b) Farming.
(c) Bacon curing.
(d) Fishing.

8. Maire tells Yolland in Act 2, Scene 2 she loves the sound of what?
(a) The crickets.
(b) The music.
(c) His voice.
(d) His speech.

9. Where does Yolland walk home along every day?
(a) Maire hAbhann.
(b) Tra Bhan.
(c) Bun na hAbhann.
(d) Mullach.

10. Manus paid for his books with the money he got from selling what?
(a) His chickens.
(b) A cow.
(c) His suitcase.
(d) A lamb.

11. What did Jimmy shout at the soldiers outside the pub in Act 3?
(a) Heathens.
(b) Trojans.
(c) Visigoths.
(d) Thermopylae.

12. What word did Yolland make fun of Maire for mispronouncing in Act 3?
(a) Maypole.
(b) Norfolk.
(c) Norwich.
(d) Around.

13. In Act 2, Scene 2, Maire wonders whether her aunt taught her something which is what?
(a) Funny.
(b) Senseless.
(c) Mean.
(d) Dirty.

14. Maire says in Act 2, Scene 2 that the skin on Yolland's shoulders is very what?
(a) Smooth.
(b) White.
(c) Soft.
(d) Dark.

15. Who does Manus say never returned the dictionary in Act 3?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Nora Dan.
(c) The Donnelly Twins.
(d) Maire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Maire tells Yolland she sees himself washing every day in front of what?

2. How many more soldiers arrived an hour ago, according to Doalty in Act 3?

3. What is the first townland which will be affected by the army's procedure in Act 3?

4. Who does Bridgett say for Owen to ask about Yolland in Act 3?

5. Yolland tells Maire that he spends his days either thinking of her or what in Act 2, Scene 2?

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