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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the man Mother had loved?
(a) Eddie.
(b) Eric.
(c) Evan.
(d) Ernie.

2. What question does Charlie ask himself about his Mother?
(a) Why she never drinks beer.
(b) Why she adopted him.
(c) Why she never loved him.
(d) Why she married Da.

3. What does Da say when Charlie tells him he loves him?
(a) And I'm glad of it.
(b) Back at you, son.
(c) Why shouldn't you?
(d) Of course you do.

4. Who appears just as Young Charlie and Mary are getting to know each other?
(a) Da.
(b) Mary's father.
(c) Oliver.
(d) Mother.

5. What does Mary say about her father?
(a) He disappeared years ago.
(b) He is dead.
(c) He will be coming to pick her up soon.
(d) He is at home with a work injury.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary say she will do with Young Charlie?

2. Why has Oliver stopped at Charlie's father's house?

3. Where does Drumm suggest that Da and Mother send Young Charlie?

4. Which of the following was not a big part of Da's life?

5. Why did all the boys want to be with Mary?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Da tell Charlie about his birth mother which is different from what his aunt has been telling him?

2. How does Act 2, Part 4 end?

3. What is "an Irishwoman's death"?

4. How does the play, DA, open?

5. How does Da change the course of Charlie's overtures toward Mary?

6. It has been presented that maybe Charlie had not been interested in caring for his dying father. How is that perception changed in this act?

7. What is the significance of the dementia scene with Charlie and Da?

8. Explain the metaphor of Charlie's hurting himself on the glasses sculpture.

9. What does Young Charlie represent for Charlie?

10. What is the author's purpose for including this brief scene with Mary, Young Charlie and Da?

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