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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Maire comment that Sarah got the dress she wore at the dance in Act 3?
(a) Dubllin.
(b) Paris.
(c) New York.
(d) Boston.

2. What is the location of the dance in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Burnfoot.
(b) Bun na hAbhann.
(c) Tobair Vree.
(d) Druim Dubh.

3. How much time passes between Act 2, Scene 1 and Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) A day.
(b) Three days.
(c) A month.
(d) A year.

4. In Act 3, what does Manus suggest Owen bake for his father?
(a) Crumpets.
(b) Lamb.
(c) Cookies.
(d) Soda bread.

5. Who does Bridgett say for Owen to ask about Yolland in Act 3?
(a) Manus.
(b) Sarah.
(c) The Donnelly twins.
(d) Doalty.

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

7. Yolland tells Maire that he spends his days either thinking of her or what in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Wishing to be with her.
(b) Looking at her fields.
(c) Looking at her house.
(d) Looking at the ocean.

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

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

10. Who says that when his grandfather was a boy the British did the same thing in Act 3?
(a) Bridgett.
(b) Jimmy.
(c) Doalty.
(d) Hugh.

11. Maire's aunt who taught her the one line of English she knows?
(a) Nellie.
(b) Gilliam.
(c) Mary.
(d) Sarah.

12. When is Jimmy getting married in Act 3?
(a) Easter.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Halloween.
(d) St. Patrick's Day.

13. Yolland says to Maire in Act 2, Scene 2 that they must have looked like what?
(a) They were horses.
(b) They were crazy.
(c) They were being chased.
(d) They were in a war.

14. What does Maire say must be wet in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) The rocks.
(b) The bushes.
(c) The grass.
(d) The trees.

15. What did Hugh call the soldiers outside the pub in Act 3?
(a) Inhuman.
(b) Heathens.
(c) Visigoths.
(d) Monsters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Maire says to Yolland in Act 2, Scene 2, "Tu es centurio in - in - in _____ Britannico."

2. Maire speaks in English in Act 2, Scene 2, saying, "In Norfolk we besport ourselves around the ____."

3. What name of a place does Maire correct Yolland in saying in Act 2, Scene 2?

4. What does Maire stoop down and pick up to show Yolland in Act 2, Scene 2?

5. What does Owen say that The Murren is named after in Act 3?

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