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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What classes does Father Flood manage to enroll Eilis in?
(a) Accounting and typing.
(b) Bookkeeping and preliminary accountancy.
(c) Cash management and bookkeeping.
(d) Typing and bookkeeping.

2. What does Eilis buy her brothers for Christmas?
(a) Books.
(b) Watches.
(c) Sweaters.
(d) Ties.

3. During Eilis's first Christmas serving at Father Flood's dinner, how many potatoes is everyone allowed?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

4. How many books does Rose pack for Eilis's voyage to America?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

5. Where does Jack work?
(a) Spare-parts warehouse.
(b) Docks.
(c) Tea warehouse.
(d) Grocery store.

6. Where is Eilis's landlady from?
(a) Ballymoney.
(b) Wexford.
(c) Enniscorthy.
(d) Marshalstown.

7. What was Miss Kelly's nickname in school?
(a) Dog face.
(b) Piglet.
(c) Freckles.
(d) Nettles.

8. What is the nationality of the man that Father Flood knows who is willing to give Eilis a job in Brooklyn?
(a) Italian.
(b) French.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Irish.

9. What color hair does the lodger, Diana Montini, have?
(a) Brown.
(b) Blonde.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

10. What hours does Eilis work at Bartocci's?
(a) 10-7.
(b) 9-6.
(c) 9-5.
(d) 8-5.

11. What color uniform does Eilis wear at Bartocci's?
(a) Cream.
(b) Blue.
(c) Brown.
(d) Yellow.

12. How old is Eilis's sister Rose?
(a) 30.
(b) 21.
(c) 25.
(d) 28.

13. Before Eilis goes in Part I, how often has she been to seven o'clock mass?
(a) Twice.
(b) 4 times.
(c) 3 times.
(d) Once.

14. Before Eilis sails to America, how many times has she used a shower?
(a) Three times.
(b) Once.
(c) Twice.
(d) Never.

15. Where does Eilis go for a physical so she can travel to America?
(a) Ferrysbank.
(b) Piercetown.
(c) Holmestown.
(d) Wexford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What days will Eilis go to her classes at Brooklyn College?

2. Why has Father Flood not been coming around to check on Eilis in the first few weeks she has been in America?

3. Where does Miss Fortini send Eilis when Eilis shows up sad for the second day in a row at work?

4. How many nights a week does Father Flood think that Eilis should attend classes?

5. On what street is Mrs. Kehoe's boarding house?

(see the answer keys)

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