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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lancey say the army will do is Yolland is not found within 48 hours?
(a) Burn the crops.
(b) Level the church.
(c) Shoot the livestock.
(d) Level every house.

2. How much later is Act 3 than Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) The next month.
(b) The next week.
(c) The next evening.
(d) The next year.

3. How many more soldiers arrived an hour ago, according to Doalty in Act 3?
(a) Twenty.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Thousands.

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

5. What does Owen say that The Murren is named after in Act 3?
(a) Saint Murren.
(b) Saint Murray.
(c) Saint Mary.
(d) Saint Muranus.

6. Where does Yolland tell Maire his mother is from in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Norwich.
(b) Westshire.
(c) London.
(d) Wellington.

7. 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) Inis Meadhon.
(b) The British Army.
(c) Ca na Bhurn.
(d) The national school.

8. What place does Yolland speak of first to Maire in attempting Irish in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Loch an Iubhair.
(b) Bun na hAbhann.
(c) Mullach.
(d) Dubh Carraig.

9. What color dress did Sarah wear at the dance?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) Purple.

10. Yolland tells Maire in Act 2, Scene 2 that her English is what?
(a) Hilarious.
(b) Perfect.
(c) Wrong.
(d) Improper.

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

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

13. What did the soldiers demolish while searching for Yolland in Act 3?
(a) The cemetery.
(b) The church.
(c) A hayfield.
(d) A cornfield.

14. Where does Manus tell Owen his father's clean socks are in Act 3?
(a) The butter box.
(b) In the drawer.
(c) On his nightstand.
(d) Under the dresser.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much time passes between Act 2, Scene 1 and Act 2, Scene 2?

3. Who is playing music in Act 2, Scene 2?

4. Who came out of his house in his underwear shouting at the soldiers, "You hoors you!" in Act 3?

5. Who does Maire say will wonder where she's got to in Act 2, Scene 2?

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